Re-creating Neighborhoods for Successful Aging provides a crucial foundation for confronting the growing aging population's demands for appropriate housing and environments. This current demographic shift is causing a transformation of attitudes and perspectives about growing older, retirement, and senior housing. To ensure that physical environments meet the changing of older adults, a reconception of housing, communities, and neighborhoods is required.
Drawing from the fields of gerontology, health sciences, community planning, landscape architecture, and environmental design, this groundbreaking resource provide and in depth examination of current elder housing practices and strategies, alongside goals for the future. Housing models, such as continuing care retirement communities (CCRC's), shared housing, and co-housing, are evaluated, and best practice recommendations are presented.
• the causal relationship between health and the environment
• challenges posed by America's automobile-dependent suburban communities
• elder-friendly design principles, including universal design and defensible space
• restorative benefits of nature and green environments
• retrofitting of naturally occurring retirement communities (NORCs)