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Building Age-Friendly Community: Notes From The Field, Rachel Filinson, Marianne Raimondo, Maureen Maigret
Building Age-Friendly Community: Notes From The Field, Rachel Filinson, Marianne Raimondo, Maureen Maigret
Sociology Between the Gaps: Forgotten and Neglected Topics
Building age-friendly communities is a global as well as a national concern. The purpose of this paper is to explore fundamental tensions underlying the formulation of age-friendly goals and their implementation, based on a review of age-friendly projects and reflections on the journey towards age friendliness in one state (Rhode Island). The authors conducted a comprehensive investigation of the relevant literature on previous age-friendly initiatives, which included case studies of individual projects, meta-analyses of age-friendly work, and educational toolkits for promoting age-friendly community. They also collected original data from ten focus groups with older adults, interviews with key informant service …
On Being Mortal, Medicine And What Matters In The End: A Book Review, Natalie Hannon
On Being Mortal, Medicine And What Matters In The End: A Book Review, Natalie Hannon
Sociology Between the Gaps: Forgotten and Neglected Topics
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The Intern: A Film Review, Emily Stier Adler
The Intern: A Film Review, Emily Stier Adler
Sociology Between the Gaps: Forgotten and Neglected Topics
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Sociology Between the Gaps: Forgotten and Neglected Topics
This section has been added to this Volume Two of Sociology between the Gaps to supplement the articles and essays published in this volume. Individuals, groups, and organizations all over the world are working to improve the lives of others in the communities in which they live and elsewhere. In this column we introduce readers to some of those efforts, noteworthy items related to the theme of liveable communities.
The Davinci Center For Community Progress: Making The Community More Liveable, Helmut E. Reinhardt, Josephine A. Ruggiero
The Davinci Center For Community Progress: Making The Community More Liveable, Helmut E. Reinhardt, Josephine A. Ruggiero
Sociology Between the Gaps: Forgotten and Neglected Topics
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The “Golden Girls”: A Sociological Analysis Of One Model Of Communal Living For The 21st Century, Josephine A. Ruggiero
The “Golden Girls”: A Sociological Analysis Of One Model Of Communal Living For The 21st Century, Josephine A. Ruggiero
Sociology Between the Gaps: Forgotten and Neglected Topics
Does art imitate life? Is that an important explanation for why certain television shows have developed a following, even years after the show moved from prime time to syndication? Beside their entertainment value, what else do we find in the episodes? This paper offers a sociological analysis of a shared housing arrangement as modeled in the popular sitcom, The Golden Girls. The author addresses the question of what it takes sociologically to build a successful, liveable community on the micro level of a single household comprised of four older very different women who decide to share a house by …