1st Edition
Rural Gerontology Towards Critical Perspectives on Rural Ageing
This book provides the first foundation of knowledge about the intellectual traditions, contemporary scope and future prospects for the interdisciplinary field of rural gerontology.
With a focus on rural regions, small towns and villages, which have the highest rates of population ageing worldwide, Rural Gerontology is aimed at understanding what it means for rural people, communities and institutions to be at the forefront of twenty-first-century demographic change. The book offers important insights from rural ageing studies into today’s most pressing gerontological problems. With chapters from more than 65 established and emerging rural ageing researchers, it is the first synthesis of knowledge about rural gerontology, harnessing a burgeoning interdisciplinary scholarship on the rural dimensions of ageing, old age and older populations. With a view to advancing a critical understanding of rural ageing populations, this book will have an overreaching impact across the social sciences by drawing on advancements in understandings of rural ageing from social, environmental, geographical and critical gerontology to facilitate a comprehensive exploration of the diversity, complexity and implications of the ageing process in rural settings.
Bringing together valuable international perspectives, this book makes a timely contribution to gerontology, rural studies and the social sciences, and will appeal to scholars and researchers across USA and Canada, UK and Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, Europe, China and countries in Africa, South America and South-East Asia.
PART I Introduction
1 Introducing rural gerontology
MARK SKINNER, RACHEL WINTERTON AND KIERAN WALSH
PART II Interdisciplinary foundations
2 Demographic ageing and rural population change
E. HELEN BERRY
3 Rural studies of ageing
JESSE HELEY AND MICHAEL WOODS
4 Rural health and ageing: making way for a critical gerontology of rural health
NEIL HANLON AND LAURA POULIN
5 Critical human ecology and global contexts of rural ageing
NORAH KEATING, JACQUIE EALES, JUDITH PHILLIPS, LIAT AYALON, MAYESO LAZARO, VERÓNICA MONTES DE OCA, PATRICIA REA AND PRAKASH TYAGI
6 Critical social gerontology and rural ageing
VANESSA BURHOLT AND THOMAS SCHARF
PART III Contemporary scope
7 Rural ageing in low- and middle-income countries
PADMORE ADUSEI AMOAH AND DAVID R. PHILLIPS
8 Rural women, ageing and retirement
NATA DUVVURY, ÁINE NÍ LÉIME AND TANYA WATSON
9 Rural-urban migration of older people: mobility, adaptation and accessibility
YANG CHENG, DAVID R. PHILLIPS, MARK W. ROSENBERG AND RACHEL WINTERTON
10 Policy and program challenges in delivering health and social care services to rural older people
NINA GLASGOW AND STEFANIE DOEBLER
11 Rural ageing, housing and homelessness
MAREE PETERSEN
12 Rural ageing and transportation: how a lack of transportation options can leave older rural
populations stranded
STINE HANSEN, K. BRUCE NEWBOLD, DARREN M. SCOTT, BRENDA VRKLJAN, AMANDA GRENIER AND KAI HUANG
13 Rural community development in an era of population ageing
LAURA RYSER, GREG HALSETH, SEAN MARKEY, NEIL HANLON AND MARK SKINNER
14 Making rural communities age-friendly: issues and challenges
VERENA MENEC AND SHEILA NOVEK
15 Rural ageing in place and place attachment
JANINE WILES, ROBIN KEARNS AND LAURA BATES
16 Place-bound rural community of older men: social and autobiographical insideness of the Mill Village Boys in Finland
MARJAANA SEPPÄNEN, ELISA TIILIKAINEN, HANNA OJALA AND ILKKA PIETILÄ
17 Social relations, connectivity and loneliness of older rural people
CATHERINE HAGAN HENNESSY AND ANTHEA INNES
18 Understanding and performing care in rural contexts in Central Europe
ANNA URBANIAK
PART IV Emerging critical perspectives
19 Postcolonial perspectives on rural ageing in (South) Africa: gendered vulnerabilities and intergenerational ambiguities of older African women
JACO HOFFMAN AND VERA ROOS
20 Posthumanist traditions and their possibilities for rural gerontology
ANDREW S. MACLAREN AND GAVIN J. ANDREWS
21 A Deweyan pragmatist perspective on rural gerontology
GRAHAM D. ROWLES AND MALCOLM P. CUTCHIN
22 Interrogating the nature and meaning of social exclusion for rural dwelling older people
KIERAN WALSH, SINÉAD KEOGH AND BRÍDÍN CARROLL
23 Defi ning the relationship between active citizenship and rural healthy ageing: a critical perspective
RACHEL WINTERTON AND JENI WARBURTON
24 A critical view of older voluntarism in ageing rural communities: prospect, precarity and global pandemics
AMBER COLIBABA, MARK SKINNER AND ELIZABETH McCRILLIS
25 Older people and poverty: making critical connections in rural places
PAUL MILBOURNE
26 Critical perspectives on mental health, dementia and rural ageing
RACHEL HERRON AND EAMON O’SHEA
27 Rural gerontechnology: arts-based insights into rural ageing and the use of technology
AN KOSURKO, MARK SKINNER, RACHEL HERRON, RACHEL J. BAR, ALISA GRIGOROVICH, PIA KONTOS AND VERENA MENEC
28 Rural older people, climate change and disasters
MATTHEW CARROLL AND JUDI WALKER
PART V Conclusion
29 Towards a critical rural gerontology
RACHEL WINTERTON, KIERAN WALSH AND MARK SKINNER
Biography
Mark Skinner is Dean of Social Sciences at Trent University, Canada, where he is also Professor of Geography and holds the Canada Research Chair in Rural Aging, Health and Social Care.
Rachel Winterton is Senior Research Fellow at the John Richards Centre for Rural Ageing Research, La Trobe Rural Health School, La Trobe University, Australia.
Kieran Walsh is Professor of Ageing & Public Policy in the Discipline of Economics and Director of the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology at the National University of Ireland Galway.
