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Special issue: Ageing during times of change: community, social infrastructure and social exclusion

Quality in Ageing and Older Adults

Special issue: Ageing during times of change: community, social infrastructure and social exclusion

Guest Editors: Sophie Yarker and Chris Phillipson

 

This special issue explores how the public policy focus on ageing in place has prompted critical attention to neighbourhood environments and social infrastructures, highlighting the importance of co-produced and participatory approaches that centre older people’s experiences in strengthening community connection and inclusion.

 

Table of Contents:

Guest editorial: Ageing during times of change: community, social infrastructure and social exclusion 
Sophie Yarker; Chris Phillipson

Ageing in place: a social infrastructure perspective 
Sophie Yarker; Patty Doran; Tine Buffel

Service users or volunteers: older residents as hybrid participants in UK villages projects 
Mhorag Goff; Patty Doran; Chris Phillipson

Reset: designing community-based, resilience-affirming support for older adults through participatory action research – an environmental perspective Open Access
Sylwia Maria Górska; Sofia Desogus; Pauline Moffat; Lorna Gunn; Linda Irvine Fitzpatrick

Ageing, activism and social infrastructure: advancing spatial justice within the age-friendly agenda 
Niamh Kavanagh; Mark Hammond

Media as social infrastructure and the discursive framing of older people’s contributions 
Ranmalie Jayasinha; Janine Wiles

Walking the neighbourhood – mobility and sociable spaces in Leigh, Greater Manchester
Graeme Sheriff and Ian Cookson

Social reproduction as social infrastructure: “Good treatment” of English-speaking older adults in Québec 
Sandra Smele; Meghan Joy; Darla Fortune; Morgan Seeley; Francesca Kohn; Tess Walker

Neighbourhood regeneration and social exclusion in later life: lessons from three decades of work and proposals for the future 
Chris Phillipson