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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Age-friendly"”.
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How Age Friendly is This City? Strategies for Assessing Age-Friendliness
The Age-Friendly Cities framework, created by the World Health Organization (WHO), has emerged as a community-based response to the challenges of demographic aging and increasing urbanization. In 2010, London, Ontario, became the first city in Canada to join the WHO Global Network of Age-Friendly …
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Benefits of a Multi-Generational Workforce: Perceptions of Age-Friendly Work Environments
<p>Age-friendly workplaces (1) emphasize mutual respect and inclusion at work and (2) provide comprehensive support for employees of all ages by utilizing a combination of policies, procedures, settings, and/or structures to (3) remove the barriers that segregate by age group and (4) encourages …
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Adaptive Reuse for Aging Populations in Shrinking Cities
… As populations continue to both shrink and age, urban planners must find a way to sustainably support the aging population while also minimizing the repercussions of a decreased tax base and the threat of urban decline. Taken together, these challenges raise the question of how can a …
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Creating Community Among Older Adults in Southwest Virginia Through Social Participation
… approach to aging, we relate earlier work in age-friendly communities, aging in place and social isolation to landscape design. Identifying the critical principles of social participation and how these needs can be met through landscape intervention, we formulate a set of criteria, through …
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The Role of Digital Technology in the Self- Management of Type 2 Diabetes Among the Aging Population, in the United Kingdom. A Systematic Literature Review.
… changes and lifestyle factors. Effective self-management of diabetes is crucial for maintaining glycaemic control and preventing complications. In recent years, digital technology has played an increasing role in supporting self-management, offering tools such as mobile applications, wearable …
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Volunteering and Social Capital: A Case Study of Older Hospital Volunteers in Southern Ontario
… older adults’ active aging through community engagement. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to understand the views on older adults’ volunteerism in a community hospital network in Southern Ontario. Utilizing in-depth interviews with 10 older volunteers (over the age of 65), document …
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Access to Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Dependence in the United States – Identifying Implications for Policy and Practice
… the US. This study investigates access to MAT by age group in the US. Its primary aim is to investigate barriers faced by adults diagnosed with OUD in accessing MAT by examining the constructs in a conceptual framework that includes the influence of policy, environment, population features, health …
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The lived worlds and life experiences of residents in university linked retirement communities: A qualitative approach
… include issues of cumulative advantage and disadvantage across the life course and issues of access for diverse elder learners. Recommendations urge college campus leaders to engage this growing population of older adults by adopting Third Age friendly policies that promote older …
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Active older people participating in creative dance - challenging perceptions
… financial recession, demographic change and the ageing population require new solutions to meet local and national challenges. The research’s four phases involve new work and research with increasing reflexivity between them benefitting practice and informing the research. There are three aspects …
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Exploring the benefits of attracting, recruiting and retaining mature age employees up to and beyond the traditional age of retirement: Perspectives from Western Australia
… in media attention surrounding Australia’s ageing workforce. A review of academic, media and grey literature highlighted inadequacies in existing workplace polices, as well as flaws in financial and social security schemes. Of particular concern were persistent negative attitudes and …
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Associations between physical activity of older adults and built environment features in and around parks: a Belfast case study
… inactivity is a key risk factor for healthy ageing, and older adults are likely to be amongst the most physically inactive. There is now an increased understanding of how built environment factors facilitate physical activity of the population, including that of older adults, which has given …
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Gathering Kilburn: The everyday production of community in a diverse London neighbourhood
… a concept to provide sufficient analytical leverage or to work as a normative ideal. Against this background, my PhD takes a look the neighbourhood of Kilburn, where amidst significant diversity, tropes of community are still widely used. I investigate how residents imagine various forms of …