Marie was an 83-year-old widow. She lived alone in a small brick house in a working-class
inner-city neighborhood in the northeastern United States. When her husband purchased …

This article examines two-decades of progress toward developing 'geographies of ageing'as
a distinct field of human geography. Reflecting on the last review in this journal by Harper …

Arriving on the scene are two new viewpoints on geographical dimensions of aging that
move some steps beyond the scope of traditional environmental gerontology and open up …

Geography, puts greater emphasis upon contributions to the study of ageing processes than
upon studies of elderly people. He argues that three interdepen-dent themes characterize …

In recent decades human geographers based in North America and Europe from both
positivist and critical traditions have contributed to debates on geographies of aging …

I have had a longstanding interest in how the attributes of communities, neighborhoods, and
dwellings occupied by elderly people influence the quality of their lives. I have been …

Hopkins and Pain's recent (2007) essay on'relational geographies of age'provides a clear-
sighted, timely and useful challenge to the practices and assumptions of much contemporary …

Focusing on older women who do not have children, this chapter adds anew dimension to
the way in which we consider the private domain of the home by introducing the concept of …

The prohferation of studies of ageing and the aged by geographers during the 1970s has
been well documented in this journal (Warnes, 1981). In the five years since the publication …

This paper elucidates and champions a spatiality perspective in social gerontology, by
arguing that relationships between older people and the spaces and places they inhabit …