Reimagining Age-Friendly Communities

Tine Buffel is Professor of Sociology and Social Gerontology at the University of Manchester and Director of the Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group (MUARG).Patty Doran is Research Fellow at the University of Manchester and Deputy Director of MUARG.Sophie Yarker is Lecturer in Health Geography at the University of Salford.

• PART I Background to urban ageing and spatial justice1. A spatial justice approach to urban ageing research - Tine Buffel, Sophie Yarker and Patty Doran2. Developing age-friendly cities and communities: an international perspective - Samuèle Rémillard-Boilard and Patty Doran3. Developing age-friendly policies for cities and city-regions during austerity, COVID-19 and beyond: strategies, challenges and reflections - Paul McGarry4. Paying attention to inequalities in later life: a priority for urban ageing research and policy - James NazrooPART II Age-friendly interventions to promote spatial justice5. Involving marginalised groups of older people in age-friendly programmes: lessons from the Ambition for Ageing programme - Luciana Lang and Sophie Yarker6. Developing age-friendly communities in areas of urban regeneration - Niamh Kavanagh and Camilla Lewis7. Co-producing age-friendly community interventions: the Village model - Mhorag Goff and Patty Doran8. Redesigning the age-friendly city: the role of architecture in addressing spatial ageism - Mark Hammond, Emily Crompton and Stefan White9. The role of community and voluntary organisations in creating spatially just age-friendly cities - Sophie Yarker, Camilla Lewis and Luciana LangPART III Reimagining age-friendly communities10. Ageing in the margins: exploring experiences of precarity in urban environments - Miriam Tenquist, Tess Hartland and Joana Salles11. Dismantling and rebuilding praxis for Age-Friendly Cities and Communities: towards an emancipatory approach - Jarmin Yeh, Emily A. Greenfield and Melanie Z. Plasencia12. Conclusion: reimagining age-friendly cities and communities - Tine Buffel, Sophie Yarker and Patty DoranAfterword - Chris Phillipson

"This is a book that genuinely moves us forward. It is reassuring and encouraging to see a collaborative group of researchers reframe the challenges and potentials of creating age-friendly urban places by reimagining them through the critical lenses of diversity, equity, and co-production. To accomplish this in a way that moves us toward social and spatial justice and counteracts the currently pervasive trend in the opposite direction is fitting testimony to the pioneering contributions of Chris Phillipson to whom the volume is dedicated." Graham D. Rowles, University of Kentucky.