Countryside Connections : : Older People, Community and Place in Rural Britain / / ed. by Catherine Hagan Hennessy, Robin Means, Vanessa Burholt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2014
• MitwirkendeR: Bailey, Jane,; Biggs, Iain,; Burholt, Vanessa,; Buzzo, Daniel,; Curry, Nigel,; Doheny, Shane,; Eales, Jacquie,; Evans, Simon,; Galvin, Kathleen,; Hennessy, Catherine Hagan,; Jones, Ray,; Keating, Norah,; Lankshear, Gloria,; Means, Robin,; Milbourne, Paul,; Musselwhite, Charles,; Parkhurst, Graham,; Phillips, Judith,; Phippen, Andrew,; Shergold, Ian,; Silk, Avril,; Smithson, Janet,; Staelens, Yvette,; Todres, Les,; Walker, Alan,; Zahra, Daniel,
• HerausgeberIn: Burholt, Vanessa,; Hagan Hennessy, Catherine,; Means, Robin,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: The New Dynamics of Ageing
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

Older people in the countryside are vastly under-researched compared to those in urban areas. This innovative volume, the first project-based book in the New Dynamics of Ageing series, offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on this issue, focusing on older people’s role as assets in rural civic society. It demonstrates how the use of diverse methods from across disciplines aims to increase public engagement with this research. The authors examine the ways in which rural elders are connected to community and place, the contributions they make to family and neighbours, and the organisations and groups to which they belong. Highly topical issues around later life explored through these perspectives include older people’s financial security, leisure, access to services, transport and mobility, civic engagement and digital inclusion – all considered within the rural context in an era of fiscal austerity. In doing so, this book challenges problem-based views of ageing rural populations through considering barriers and facilitators to older people’s inclusion and opportunities for community participation in rural settings. Countryside Connections is a valuable text for students, researchers and practitioners with interests in rural ageing, civic engagement and interdisciplinary methods, theory and practice.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword -- Countryside connections in later life: setting the scene -- Conceptualising rural connectivities in later life -- Rural connectivity and older people’s leisure participation -- Connecting with community: the nature of belonging among rural elders -- Beyond transport: understanding the role of mobilities in connecting rural elders in civic society -- Deep mapping and rural connectivities -- Older people, low income and place: making connections in rural Britain -- Connecting with older people as project stakeholders: lessons for public participation and engagement in rural research -- Towards connectivity in a Grey and Pleasant Land? -- Index