C Phillipson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 19865 |
|---|---|
| NOME | C Phillipson |
| PRENOMES | C |
| SOBRENOME | Phillipson |
| ASSINATURA | PHILLIPSON C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6220-2722 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 78 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 558 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 78 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
At home in the city
Exploring the role of faith spaces as social infrastructure in creating age-friendly communities
Faith spaces are vital but overlooked forms of social infrastructure that support older adults. They are especially important for marginalized and minoritized groups who may face barriers to mainstream services. While Age-Friendly Cities and Communities (AFCC) initiatives aim to develop supportive environments for ageing populations, they have rarely engaged with faith spaces, despite their role in facilitating community support and informal care…
Urban Poverty in the Everyday Lives of Older People
Social conditions and pressures associated with city living cause particular challenges for older people given fixed incomes, life course needs (e.g., living alone, mobility issues, need for care), and reductions to essential public supports. The proposed study explores older people’s everyday experiences of poverty and low income in the urban contexts of Toronto and Montreal, Canada’s two largest cities. In Canada, a country where federal, provi…
Active ageing in urban environments
This reflexive piece critically engages with Avoiding ‘Bungalow Legs’: Active Ageing and the Built Environment by Gilroy and Townshend (2024), which argues that fostering healthy ageing requires ur
The Political Economy of Ageing and the Second Coming of Neoliberalism
The social context for ageing populations is raising important questions and issues given competing pressures from the impact of austerity, the changing role of the state, precarious forms of labour, and threats to state and occupational pensions. This article will argue that such challenges underline the need for a new political economy of ageing, one that acknowledges the significance of a resurgent neoliberalism in reshaping institutions suppo…
Developing age-friendly cities
Living with financial insecurity
This article analyses the impact of the cost‐of‐living crisis on older ethnic minority people. The discussion suggests that while the UK is experiencing the greatest living standards crisis in modern times, the pressures facing older people are not new. They should be understood in the context of austerity and the impact of COVID‐19 on the older population, which drastically rationed support of all kinds. The analysis focuses on qualitative data …
Developing 'Age-Friendly' Communities
Over the past two decades, the need to create 'age-friendly cities and communities' (AFCC) has emerged as a major theme in policies aimed at improving old people's physical and social environment. The World Health Organization (WHO) has driven this agenda through the launch in 2010 of the Global Network of Age-friendly Cities and Communities. Support for ageing in place has, at the same time, run alongside an increase in international retirement …
Integrating knowledge on green infrastructure, health and well-being in ageing populations
Ageing and urbanisation pose significant challenges for public health and urban planning. Ageing populations are at particular risk from hazards arising from urbanisation processes, some of which are in turn exacerbated by climate change. One approach for mitigating the negative effects of urbanisation on ageing populations is the leveraging of the beneficial effects of urban green infrastructure as a public health intervention in the planning pr…
Locked down by inequality
This paper develops the argument that post-COVID-19 recovery strategies need to focus on building back fairer cities and communities, and that this requires a strong embedding of ‘ age-friendly’ principles to support marginalised groups of older people, especially those living in deprived urban neighbourhoods, trapped in poor quality housing. It shows that older people living in such areas are likely to experience a ‘double lockdown’ as a result …
“Ageing in Place” and Urban Regeneration
This article explores the potential impact of future urban regeneration for older people “ageing in place” in an inner-city neighbourhood, Collyhurst, Manchester, UK. Collyhurst has been reshaped by de-industrialisation, demolition of housing, disinvestment in local services, and the closure of local amenities. The neighbourhood has been earmarked for significant urban regeneration including building extensive housing, as well as social infrastru…
Recognizing precarity? A comparative analysis of governmental documents in provincial and federal administrations
With an aging population, have federal and provincial governments acknowledged the diversity of the policy needs of older adults? This contribution analyzes administrative and policy documents across ministries to study the frequency and the depth of engagement involving older adults with a disability, older immigrants, and those living in poverty. Precarity received marginal treatment with very limited discussions combining aging in relation to …
Fin de carrière et vieillesse
En Suisse, les risques de fin de carrière et vieillesse sont généralement traités politiquement comme deux problématiques distinctes, l’une relevant des politiques de l’emploi, l’autre de celles de la vieillesse. Cette séparation résulte de la genèse de la politique vieillesse en Suisse. En établissant l’âge d’accès à la rente de vieillesse à 65 ans, les responsables politiques ont renoncé à couvrir le risque d’appauvrissement des travailleurs di…
How Do Decision Makers and Service Providers Experience Participatory Approaches to Developing and Implementing Physical Activity Interventions with Older Adults? A Thematic Analysis
Incorporating participatory approaches was perceived to yield important benefits. Interviewees highlighted that to ensure success, sufficient time needs to be provided to develop good working relationships with older adults and partner organisations. They also emphasised that sufficient funding to ensure adequate staffing and the sustainability of projects is required to allow benefits to be gained. Importantly, the implementation of these approa…
Covid-19, Inequality and Older People
This paper considers the basis for a 'community-centred' response to COVID-19. It highlights the pressures on communities weakened by austerity, growing inequalities, and cuts to social infrastructure. This paper examines the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on low-income communities, whilst highlighting the extent to which they have been excluded from debates about policies to limit the spread of COVID-19. This paper examines four approac…
Developing Age-Friendly Cities and Communities
Developing age-friendly cities and communities has become a key part of policies aimed at improving the quality of life of older people in urban areas. The World Health Organization has been especially important in driving the 'age-friendly' agenda, notably through its Global Network of Age-Friendly Cities and Communities, connecting 1114 (2020 figure) cities and communities worldwide. Despite the expansion and achievements of the Network over th…
I never really left the university
I Would Never Come Here Because I’ve Got My Own Garden”
Green spaces are known to improve health and wellbeing via several mechanisms, such as by reducing stress and facilitating physical activity. However, little is known about the impact of the smaller green spaces typically found in urban environments on wellbeing, especially for older adults. This study investigated experiences in adults (5 males and 10 females) aged 60 years and over of small urban green spaces in a large UK city. Fifteen older a…
Extending working life and the management of change. Is the workplace ready for the ageing worker
Increasing longevity and the strain on state and occupational pensions have brought into question long-held assumptions about the age of retirement, and raised the prospect of a workplace populated by ageing workers. In the United Kingdom the default retirement age has gone, incremental increases in state pension age are being implemented and ageism has been added to workplace anti-discrimination laws. These changes are yet to bring about the ant…
Fuller’ or ‘extended’ working lives? Critical perspectives on changing transitions from work to retirement
Research on older workers and retirement has yet to adjust fully to an environment influenced by a combination of demographic change, technological developments and economic recession. A key dimension to the changing relationship between ageing and work is the tension between policies to extend working life and the increasingly fragmented nature of late working life, with the emergence of varied transitions, including: bridge employment, second/t…
Ageing in a Gentrifying Neighbourhood
Debates about gentrification continue to occupy a significant part of research investigating social change within urban communities. While most gentrification studies have focused on 'incoming' groups or those forced to leave, there is limited knowledge about those remaining in neighbourhoods undergoing community change. This study explores the experiences of older residents who have lived much of their adult lives in the same locality but whose …
Precarious Aging
Population aging and longevity in the context of declining social commitments raise concerns about disadvantage, inequality, and the well‐being of older people. In this short piece, we use the concept of precarity as a lens to understand new and sustained forms of insecurity that affect late life, and we illustrate how these risks, when experienced over time and in relation to conditions such as austerity, can deepen disadvantage
Uncertain Futures
The promotion of extended working life has created a period of uncertainty between the ending of work and the beginning of retirement. This period of the life course is now ‘open-ended’ in respect of whether older workers decide to remain in employment or leave working. However, the choices available are framed within public policy and organisational contexts as well as personal circumstances. The study reviews the organisation of ‘work-ending’, …
Reexamining the Political Economy of Aging
Social Theory, Social Policy and Ageing
The 'elected' and the 'excluded
This article explores various issues concerned with belonging and identity in the context of community change and residential location. It examines the changing nature of community attachments in later life, and their impacts on the quality of old age lives. It also notes the increased importance of environmental perspectives within gerontology, not least because environments are being transformed through the diverse social, cultural and economic…
Precarity in late life
Approaches to ageing that are organised around productivity, success, and active late life have contributed to views of dementia as an unsuccessful, failed or 'frailed' old age. Operating through dominant frameworks, socio-cultural constructs and organisational practices, the 'frailties' of the body and mind are often used to mark the boundaries of health and illness in late life, and shape responses accordingly. Our concern is that both the take…
Ageing in urban environments
Developing environments responsive to the aspirations and needs of older people has become a major concern for social and public policy. This article aims to provide a critical perspective on what has been termed ‘age-friendly cities’ by shifting the focus from questions such as ‘What is an ideal city for older people?’ to the question of ‘How age-friendly are cities?’ This approach, it is argued, might be more suited to deal with the complexitie…
Experiences of neighbourhood exclusion and inclusion among older people living in deprived inner-city areas in Belgium and England
This article explores conceptual and empirical aspects of the social exclusion/inclusion debate in later life, with a particular focus on issues of place and space in urban settings. Exploratory findings are reported from two empirical studies in Belgium and England, which sought to examine experiences of social exclusion and inclusion among people aged 60 and over living in deprived inner-city neighbourhoods. Semi-structured interviews were cond…
Precarity in late life
Fuller’ or ‘extended’ working lives? Critical perspectives on changing transitions from work to retirement
Research on older workers and retirement has yet to adjust fully to an environment influenced by a combination of demographic change, technological developments and economic recession. A key dimension to the changing relationship between ageing and work is the tension between policies to extend working life and the increasingly fragmented nature of late working life, with the emergence of varied transitions, including: bridge employment, second/t…
Can global cities be ‘age-friendly cities’? Urban development and ageing populations
The Older Worker
The roles that older workers play in labour markets has received a great deal of policy and academic scrutiny in response to economic crises and demographic change. As a starting point, this focus has paradoxically resulted in insufficient attention to older workers themselves. The article is thus concerned with refocusing the agenda for research onto the older worker. Building on an extensive literature review, four gaps in knowledge are identif…
Ageing in a Gentrifying Neighbourhood
Debates about gentrification continue to occupy a significant part of research investigating social change within urban communities. While most gentrification studies have focused on 'incoming' groups or those forced to leave, there is limited knowledge about those remaining in neighbourhoods undergoing community change. This study explores the experiences of older residents who have lived much of their adult lives in the same locality but whose …
Retirement Migration in Europe
This article examines the impact of economic inequalities on the individual choices that North European retirees make when they migrate to Mediterranean countries. It considers a group of retired and early-retired migrants who live permanently in Spain and have limited economic resources. Through a qualitative methodology based on semi-structured interviews with retirement migrants as well as ethnographic observations and spontaneous conversation…
Baby boomers, consumption and social change
This paper outlines the ways in which the cohort born immediately following the Second World War illustrates changes in consumption patterns within their lives. The paper suggests that this cohort (often known as baby boomers) view themselves to be a ‘bridging’ generation between the ‘old’ ways of their own parents and the radically different views of the next generation. Now nearing or entering retirement and later life, the discussion considers…
Older People's Experiences of Community Life
This paper examines changes to the community life of older people living in three urban areas of England: Bethnal Green, Wolverhampton and Woodford. All three were the subject of classic community studies in the 1940s and 1950s, these providing rich material about the lives of groups such as elderly people. Using this earlier research as a baseline, the paper presents data on how the experience of living in urban neighbourhoods has changed for ol…
Determinants of quality of life amongst older people in deprived neighbourhoods
This article analyses the determinants of the quality of life in a sample of 600 people aged 60 or more years living in deprived areas of three English cities. Data were collected by means of a face-to-face administered questionnaire. Two standardised measures, the ‘Satisfaction With Life Scale’ (SWLS) and the ‘Philadelphia Geriatric Center Morale Scale’ (PGCMS), and a single-item question were used to produce outcome measures of the quality of l…
Older Peopleís Perceptions of the Neighbourhood
Neighbourhoods contribute significantly to shaping their residents' identities. For older people, the neighbourhood may be even more important than for younger people. Ageing can be associated with an intensification of feelings about locality and space, and the neighbourhood may contribute significantly to older people's quality of daily life. Within the context of a study that examines the concerns of older people living in areas of England cha…
Locked down by inequality
This paper develops the argument that post-COVID-19 recovery strategies need to focus on building back fairer cities and communities, and that this requires a strong embedding of ‘ age-friendly’ principles to support marginalised groups of older people, especially those living in deprived urban neighbourhoods, trapped in poor quality housing. It shows that older people living in such areas are likely to experience a ‘double lockdown’ as a result …
Extending working life and the management of change. Is the workplace ready for the ageing worker
Increasing longevity and the strain on state and occupational pensions have brought into question long-held assumptions about the age of retirement, and raised the prospect of a workplace populated by ageing workers. In the United Kingdom the default retirement age has gone, incremental increases in state pension age are being implemented and ageism has been added to workplace anti-discrimination laws. These changes are yet to bring about the ant…
Social and Cultural Constructions of Ageing
This paper examines social and cultural constructions of first wave baby boomers, those born in the period 1945-1954. Boomers are depicted, variously, as bringing new lifestyles and attitudes to ageing and retirement; or heralding economic disaster; or placing fresh burdens on health and social care services. The paper seeks to explore narratives about the boomer generation, drawing on sociological studies, the mass media and cultural and social …
Uncertain Futures
The promotion of extended working life has created a period of uncertainty between the ending of work and the beginning of retirement. This period of the life course is now ‘open-ended’ in respect of whether older workers decide to remain in employment or leave working. However, the choices available are framed within public policy and organisational contexts as well as personal circumstances. The study reviews the organisation of ‘work-ending’, …
Achieving fuller working lives
In the United Kingdom there has been a shift away from policies promoting early retirement towards an emphasis on extended, fuller working lives. This article examines the nature of policy change in this area and prospects for individuals remaining in work longer. Pension ages for men and women are rising rapidly and by 2028 are likely to reach 67 years. Cash benefits for those out of work before state pension age are becoming harder to access an…
Experiences of Place among Older Migrants Living in Inner-City Neighbourhoods in Belgium and England
This article aims to explore experiences of “place” among older migrants living in deprived urban neighbourhoods. The data for the present research are derived from two qualitative studies in inner-city neighbourhoods in England and Belgium. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with older Pakistani and Somali people in Manchester and Liverpool, and Turkish and Moroccan elders in Brussels, the paper reviews the variety of ways in which the idea o…
Placing ethnicity at the centre of studies of later life
Research on minority ethnic ageing remains a neglected area within mainstream race and ethnicity studies as well as that of social gerontology. This paper examines the background and reasons for this, arguing that a focus on minority ethnic issues provides a reminder of the complexity of the lifecourse, and of the diversity of ageing as a cultural, economic and social construction. The discussion reviews definitions of ethnicity and their relevan…
Commentary
Changing patterns of work and retirement raise major questions for social policy in the 21st century. A key issue concerns how to handle the legacy of the 20th century – namely the institutionalization of retirement as a major part of the life course. The acceptance of early retirement in the 1970s and 1980s accelerated the growth of post-work lifestyles, consolidated by the cohort of ‘first wave’ baby boomers (those born in the 1940s and early 1…
Older Workers and Retirement
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Urbanisation and Ageing
Mike Davis. Dead Cities: A Natural History . New Press, New York, 2002. 288 pp., pbk $16.95 ISBN 1 56584 844 6. Eric Klinenberg. Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago . University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2002. 320 pp., pbk $15.00 ISBN 0 226 44322 1. Katherine S. Newman. A Different Shade of Gray: Midlife and Beyond in the Inner City . New Press, New York, 2003. 400 pp., hbk $29.95 ISBN 1 56584 615 X. The environmental context of a…
The family and community life of older people
The post-war period has witnessed considerable change in England affecting family structures and social relationships both within, and between, the generations. In this paper, we report on research which has examined the impact of these changes on the lives of older people. Three urban areas: Bethnal Green and Woodford in London, and Wolverhampton in the West Midlands, are the locations for this project. All three were the subject of classic comm…
Pre-Retirement Education
As a result of the institutionalization of retirement and the development of an ageing population, a keen discussion has emerged concerning the nature of retirement education. Two major research projects (at the Universities of Keele and Surrey) have begun; and the number of books and articles devoted to the theme has expanded enormously over the past two years. However, despite this attention, pre-retirement education (PRE) is still struggling t…
State Policies and the Elderly
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Capitalism and the Construction of Old Age
"The present recession is hitting particularly hard at elderly people, especially as it coincides with increasing numbers in the 60+ age group in many industrial capitalist countries. The broad dimensions of demographic change are well understood and are not centrally considered in this book, which aims, rather, to develop a critical account of the position of elderly people in society, the emergence of retirement as part of the human life cycle,…
Commentary One
Commentary One
Perceptions of Community Carers about Elderly People
In the present study a sentence completion list was administered to a range of community carers in the health and social services. Analysis of information from 334 respondents indicated statistically significant differences regarding perceptions about older people. The responses of the different groups indicated attitudinal support for developing a range of preventive strategies in the field of social and health care. There was some evidence, how…
Work and Retirement
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Work and Retirement
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The Development of European Social Gerontology
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Developing a Political Economy of Drugs and Older People
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The Sociology of Old Age
Inter-Generational Relations
This article reviews the likelihood of inter-generational conflict arising from population ageing in the twentieth century. The evidence used to support the idea of inter-generational conflict is critically examined. The article puts forward an alternate scenario based on different projections about trends in employment, productivity and future economic growth. Finally, the paper reviews evidence that changes in preferences for care within the fa…
Time for Retirement
Interpretations of Ageing
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The family and community life of older people
The post-war period has witnessed considerable change in England affecting family structures and social relationships both within, and between, the generations. In this paper, we report on research which has examined the impact of these changes on the lives of older people. Three urban areas: Bethnal Green and Woodford in London, and Wolverhampton in the West Midlands, are the locations for this project. All three were the subject of classic comm…
Older People's Experiences of Community Life
This paper examines changes to the community life of older people living in three urban areas of England: Bethnal Green, Wolverhampton and Woodford. All three were the subject of classic community studies in the 1940s and 1950s, these providing rich material about the lives of groups such as elderly people. Using this earlier research as a baseline, the paper presents data on how the experience of living in urban neighbourhoods has changed for ol…
History and Historical Sociology
Pat Thane. Old Age in English History: Past Experiences, Present Issues. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000. 536 pp. £25.00 ISBN 0-19-820382-9. John Macnicol. The Politics of Retirement in Britain, 1878-1948. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998. 425 pp, £47.50, ISBN 0-52162273- 5. Research on the history of old age has been an important area of scholarship in gerontology over the past two decades. From the impetus provided by Laslett's…
The Globalization of Capital, the Welfare State, and Old Age Policy
A new political economy is shaping the lives of present and future generations of older people. The key change has been the move from the mass institutions that defined growing old in the period from 1945 through the late 1970s to the more individualized structures—privatized pensions, privatized health and social care—that increasingly inform the current period. The authors examine the role of international governmental organizations in promotin…
The Family and Community Life of Older People
This book addresses the question of how social change across the post-war to present-day period has affected the ageing experience of people living in urban communities in Britain. It will be relevant to those interested in a community studies approach to research on older persons ’ needs. Findings on the positive and negative dimensions to the urban experience of “ageing in place ” and of the increasing importance for older persons of kin, neigh…
Age, Narrative and Migration
Katy Gardner. Age, Narrative and Migration: The Life Course and Life Histories of Bengali Elders in London. Oxford: Berg, 2002. 254 pp. ISBN 1-85973-313-1, $68.00
Globalisation and the Future of Ageing
Debates on globalisation have become an important area within the social sciences. The purpose of this chapter is to extend this discussion to the study of ageing and in particular the field of critical gerontology. Some of the concerns here include issues around inequality and social divisions running through the life course. These are being changed and influenced in new ways by the political and economic changes associated with globalisation. T…
Older Peopleís Perceptions of the Neighbourhood
Neighbourhoods contribute significantly to shaping their residents' identities. For older people, the neighbourhood may be even more important than for younger people. Ageing can be associated with an intensification of feelings about locality and space, and the neighbourhood may contribute significantly to older people's quality of daily life. Within the context of a study that examines the concerns of older people living in areas of England cha…
Older Workers and Retirement
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Work and Retirement Transitions
The main argument of this paper is that retirement will retain its importance over the next few decades, despite pressure from governments to encourage workers to delay leaving paid employment. Retirement may prove especially difficult to reverse among the ‘baby boom’ cohorts where an expectation of withdrawing from work at earlier ages has become entrenched. The article examines the policy context influencing current debates. It then reviews dat…
Urbanisation and Ageing
Mike Davis. Dead Cities: A Natural History . New Press, New York, 2002. 288 pp., pbk $16.95 ISBN 1 56584 844 6. Eric Klinenberg. Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago . University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2002. 320 pp., pbk $15.00 ISBN 0 226 44322 1. Katherine S. Newman. A Different Shade of Gray: Midlife and Beyond in the Inner City . New Press, New York, 2003. 400 pp., hbk $29.95 ISBN 1 56584 615 X. The environmental context of a…
Sociology (54 obras) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (43 obras) · Political science (41 obras) · Psychology (32 obras) · Economics (29 obras) · Medicine (29 obras) · Social science (20 obras) · Gerontology (18 obras) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (18 obras) · Retirement, Disability, and Employment (18 obras)