"Architectures of Ageing in Place is an excellent critical look into how the design and refurbishment of buildings may meet the diverse needs of older people bringing in interesting case study examples from across the Globe. It cleverly places architecture, buildings and design within important contemporary debates on healthy ageing, and also wider gerontological issues of intergenerational practice and social citizenship. It is a perfect match between fields of architecture, built environment and design along with gerontology and ageing and would be useful to scholars, policymakers and practitioners working in these fields."
Charles Musselwhite, Professor and Head of Psychology, Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK
This book creates a new chapter for what we need to know when designing age-friendly homes and communities. As a member of the governments Older Peoples Housing Task Force, its publication is timely as we build our understanding on the physical architecture for accessible and adaptable homes and age-friendly places and recognise the importance of forging the right social architecture where people of all ages can connect, live and thrive.
Jeremy Porteus, Chief Executive, Housing Learning and Improvement Network
"Ageing is not a problem to be solved, writes one of the contributors to this thought-provoking collection of essays on designing spaces and places for older people. Rejecting both the medicalisation and institutionalisation of the ageing population, we are offered a series of bespoke design solutions based on ethnographic research in India, Singapore, Sweden, Portugal, New Zealand, the UK and the US, all of which suggest the many different and imaginative ways of providing care and shelter to enable the ideal of ageing in place to become both realisable and meaningful."
Ken Worpole, Social historian and author of Modern Hospice Design: the architecture of palliative and social care.
