Geographies of Transport and Ageing

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Curl, Angela (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Musselwhite, Charles (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Human geography.; Aging.; Urban geography.; Economic development.; Social change.; Culture-Study and teaching.; Human Geography.; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).; Development and Social Change.; Regional and Cultural Studies.

This book presents a unique geographical perspective on issues of transport and mobility for ageing populations. Society is ageing across the globe. As well as living longer, older people are fitter, healthier and more active than previous generations were. There is both a desire and a need to be mo...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• PART ONE: CONTEXT
• 1 Geographical Perspectives on Transport and Ageing
• 2 Driving Segregation: Age, gender and emerging inequalities
• 3 Mobility and ageing: a review of interactions between transport and technology from the perspective of older people
• PART TWO: RURAL
• 4 Mobility, transport and older people's well-being in Sub-Saharan Africa: Review and Prospect
• 5 A Window to the Outside World. Digital technology to stimulate imaginative mobility for housebound older adults in rural areas
• PART THREE: URBAN
• 6 Cycling for transport among older adults: health benefits, prevalence, determinants, injuries and the potential of e-bikes
• 7 Out of home mobility senior citizens in Kochi, India
• 8 Walking with older adults as a geographical method
• PART FOUR: FUTURES
• 9 Exploring how older people might experience future transport systems
• 10 Future ageing populations and policy.