Overview
- Contains a rich body of empirical evidence on how older people’s experience the residential environment in a rapidly ageing Asian society and the high-density homes of Singapore
- Provides evidence on the physical and social characteristics of the neighborhoods that facilitate ageing in place
- Reveals how mixed methods can be combined and used in the study of older adults’ lived experience
- Provides a useful reference for built environment practitioners working on age-friendly housing and neighborhoods
- Opens up new avenues for research on ageing and the urban built environment
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
Keywords
- ageing research in Singapore
- lived experiences of older residents in Singapore
- housing and neighborhoods for older residents in Singapore
- Livable Communities for an Aging Population
- Aging and buildings in Singapore
- Elderly residents in Singapore
- Connectedness of older adults
- age-friendly housing
- age-friendly neighborhoods
- landscape/regional and urban planning
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ageing and the Built Environment in Singapore
Editors: Belinda Yuen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92444-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92443-4Published: 12 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06431-0Published: 25 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92444-1Published: 28 June 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 285
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 49 illustrations in colour
Topics: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Aging, Community and Environmental Psychology