Ageing in urban environments: Developing 'age-friendly' cities

Critical Social Policy

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 597-617

  Buffel, Tine ^a   Phillipson, Chris ^b   scharf, Thomas ^c  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

older people; urban communities; urban development

Indexed keywords

AGING POPULATION; ELDERLY POPULATION; SOCIAL POLICY; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84867245358     PISSN: 02610183     EISSN: 1461703X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261018311430457     Document Type: Article

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