Alun E Joseph
Biographic Data
| ID | 804719 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alun E Joseph |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alun E |
| FAMILY NAME | Joseph |
| SIGNATURE | JOSEPH A E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Guelph |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 822 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 17 |
Exploring employment as a space of respite and resistance for family caregivers
This paper challenges traditional definitions of work and leisure as separate concepts by suggesting that a space where individuals engage in employment (paid work) can, at the same time, be a space of respite (leisure) for employees who are also family caregivers. The research aims to better understand what caregivers perceive as ideal respite space, what that space means to them, how the space where employment takes place fits that ideal and wh…
Voluntarism, defensive localism and spaces of resistance to health care restructuring
Place integration through efforts to support healthy aging in resource frontier communities
Growing old in resource communities
This article addresses the implications of “resource frontier aging” with a particular emphasis on understanding the role of the voluntary sector in supporting older people living in resource hinterland regions, and in sustaining economic and social development in their communities. Informed by recent calls for greater attention to the diverse experiences of rural aging, individually and collectively, and drawing on previous research on voluntari…
Re-Imagining Psychiatric Asylum Spaces through Residential Redevelopment
The closure of psychiatric asylums across the western world has brought significant amounts of ‘brown field’ land onto the market over the past few decades. Situated on the edge (or former edge) of many cities, these sites have proven attractive for residential redevelopment. Drawing on two case studies from the UK and New Zealand, we consider the implications of such recycling in the built environment for the memory of the former use, asking how…
Spaces of Resistance or Acquiescence? Learning from Media Discourses on the Role of Voluntarism in Ageing Communities
This paper explores the extent to which a correspondence exists between academic theories and public perceptions concerning the role of volunteers and voluntary organizations in ageing communities. Drawing on local print media as a key source of information on public discourse, and with reference to an existing theorization of voluntarism, we analyze daily newspaper coverage of voluntary sector involvement in community care, long-term care, and h…
Voluntarism as a mediator of the experience of growing old in evolving rural spaces and changing rural places
Memorialisation and remembrance
This paper builds on earlier investigations of psychiatric asylum closure by focusing on their not infrequent successor role as educational facilities. We ask two questions: what conditions underpin a transition to educational re-use, and how is former asylum use remembered and memorialised in the successor context? Through recounting and interpreting the histories of acquisition and adaptation at two sites (Carrington, Auckland and Lakeshore, To…
The trouble with authenticity
Placing voluntarism within evolving spaces of care in ageing rural communities
Seeing Farmers' Markets
In this paper we explore the extent to which a reciprocal relationship exists between contemporary theorisation about farmers' markets in geography and the rapidly expanding public discourse surrounding these sites of exchange in New Zealand. Activities branded as farmers' markets are seen widely as local phenomena of systemic significance for the understanding of evolving geographies of production, consumption and exchange. As something 'new' on…
Recycling former psychiatric hospitals in New Zealand
Unpacking the terms of engagement with local food at the Farmers’ Market
Selling the private asylum
This paper examines the role of place in the positioning and survival of the contemporary private asylum. While community care is now the dominant mental health care modality in most Western health economies, some asylum care has survived, often in the private sector, catering for a clientele able and willing to pay for a non‐standard approach to care. We consider how landscapes, buildings and services provide a basis for marketing and selling as…
Across the divide (?)
Social and environmental regulation in rural China
From retreat to health centre
Agricultural land protection in China
Canada's rural population
Contracting opportunities
What Is to Be Done? And Do We Have Any Choice
Long-term care restructuring in rural Ontario
Unhealthy Acts
This paper provides a regional commentary on the progress of deinstitutionalization in an era of restructuring in New Zealand. The commentary focuses on the Waikato region, where the transition to community-based psychiatric care has been underway since the announcement of the closure of Tokanui Hospital in 1993. We use media reports to construct a narrative illuminating the distinctive threads of alternative discourse on the re-placing of people…
Ageing in rural China
Rural change and the elderly in rural places
Space in its place
Measuring potential physical accessibility to general practitioners in rural areas
Over the hill and far away
Restructuring health and rural communities in New Zealand
The recent restructuring of health-care provision has particularly a•ected rural communities in New Zealand, a nation characterized by an emerging biculturalism in its policies and outlook. In this article we develop a framework linking health care, the rural experience of place and the national cultural fabric. After presenting the stories of two North Island communities undergoing transition, we consider the role of health care in influencing t…
Agricultural land protection in China
Unpacking the terms of engagement with local food at the Farmers’ Market
Long-term care restructuring in rural Ontario
Voluntarism as a mediator of the experience of growing old in evolving rural spaces and changing rural places
Restructuring long-term care and the geography of ageing
Casey House
Selling the private asylum
This paper examines the role of place in the positioning and survival of the contemporary private asylum. While community care is now the dominant mental health care modality in most Western health economies, some asylum care has survived, often in the private sector, catering for a clientele able and willing to pay for a non‐standard approach to care. We consider how landscapes, buildings and services provide a basis for marketing and selling as…
Across the divide (?)
Memorialisation and remembrance
This paper builds on earlier investigations of psychiatric asylum closure by focusing on their not infrequent successor role as educational facilities. We ask two questions: what conditions underpin a transition to educational re-use, and how is former asylum use remembered and memorialised in the successor context? Through recounting and interpreting the histories of acquisition and adaptation at two sites (Carrington, Auckland and Lakeshore, To…
Placing voluntarism within evolving spaces of care in ageing rural communities
Deinstitutionalization meets restructuring
Location and Stigma
Canada's rural population
Ageing in rural China
Elderly migration and its implications for service provision in rural communities
Re-Imagining Psychiatric Asylum Spaces through Residential Redevelopment
The closure of psychiatric asylums across the western world has brought significant amounts of ‘brown field’ land onto the market over the past few decades. Situated on the edge (or former edge) of many cities, these sites have proven attractive for residential redevelopment. Drawing on two case studies from the UK and New Zealand, we consider the implications of such recycling in the built environment for the memory of the former use, asking how…
Growing old in place
Rural residential development and municipal service provision
Recycling former psychiatric hospitals in New Zealand
Unhealthy Acts
This paper provides a regional commentary on the progress of deinstitutionalization in an era of restructuring in New Zealand. The commentary focuses on the Waikato region, where the transition to community-based psychiatric care has been underway since the announcement of the closure of Tokanui Hospital in 1993. We use media reports to construct a narrative illuminating the distinctive threads of alternative discourse on the re-placing of people…
The Referral System as a Modifier of Distance Decay Effects in the Utilization of Mental Health Care Services
Spatial Diffusion Processes 1
This paper describes a model of the diffusion of a message among the cities of a system. The diffusion process depends upon the flow of information about the message from prior adopters. Two cases are identified: (1) in which adopters are individuals within cities, so that information relevant to adoption may flow from adopters in one city to other individuals in that city, and (2) in which the city is the adopting unit, so that information relev…
The Referral System as a Modifier of Distance Decay Effects in the Utilization of Mental Health Care Services
Spatial Diffusion Processes 2
An earlier paper (Webber and Joseph, 1978) proposed a model of the process whereby messages diffuse between a system of cities and provided a means of approximating the solution to that model if cities can ‘self-infect’ themselves with the message. This paper continues the analysis of this model by investigating the case in which a city cannot send the message to itself. The analysis is numerical, and an alternative to Monte Carlo simulation is u…
Locational variation in mental health care utilization dependent upon diagnosis
The Diffusion of Grain Corn Production Through Southern Ontario, 1946–1971
The diffusion of grain corn production is described and its spatial form considered in light of innovation diffusion theory. A model is developed to examine the covariance of changes in rate of adoption and selected independent variables representing spatial and aspatial hypotheses. The results suggest that the structure of this diffusion process changes over time. Up to 1956, the process conforms at least in part to the geographer's conceptualiz…
Measuring potential physical accessibility to general practitioners in rural areas
Interpreting Patterns of Public Service Utilization in Rural Areas
Public service provision in rural areas is an important focus of research in geography and in related disciplines, but studies to date have been hampered by the paucity of theory on public service utilization. This paper synthesizes existing theory within a conceptual framework and evaluates its major components using a Canadian data set. The case study substantiates elements of both aggregate and behavioral conceptualizations. However, a fuller …
Preferences for Public Service Provision in Rural Areas Undergoing Exurban Residential Development – A Canadian View
Rural Accessibility of General Practitioners
Using data from censuses and medical directories and various measures of availability and accessibility, trends in patterns of access at the two‐county and township level are considered against the backdrop of substantial changes in the spatial organization of rural areas and in systems of health care delivery. The results suggest that the negative impact of the decline in, and centralization of, general practitioner services available to the dis…
Rural residential development and municipal service provision
Taxes versus services
The ‘Diffusion’ of Grain Corn Production Through Southern Ontario, 1971‐81
Accessibility and Utilisation
Accessibility and Utilization
Geographical Perspectives on Health Care Health Care Delivery Systems Some International Comparisons Access to Health Care Physician Organization, Location and Access to Health Care Measuring the Potential Physical Accessibility of General Practitioner Services Utilization of Health Care Facilities Revealed Accessibility? Jarvis' Law and the Utilization of Mental Health Care Spatial Aspects of Health Care Planning
Some Methods for Measuring the Geographic Accessibility of Medical Services in Rural Regions
This paper presents two complementary measures of geographic access to medical care in rural regions that necessitate only modest information inputs on the location of services and client populations. An application for the Abitibi-Temiscamingue region in the Province of Quebec, Canada, is used to illustrate the types of product yielded by the measures. These include mapped patterns of potential accessibility by rural community and a graphic disp…
Unravelling the Population Turnaround in Rural Canada
This paper attempts to unravel the rural population turnaround in Canada through a disaggregation and analysis of rural growth rates by (1) two decades, 1961–71 and 1971–81, (2) the farm and non‐farm components of rural population, (3) provincially based regions, and (4) area types based on proximity to urban centres. Following a discussion of the various definitional and boundary‐matching issues arising from the use of the Census of Canada, resu…
Regional and welfare perspectives on the public-private hospital dichotomy in New Zealand
Location and Stigma
Consumer Preferences for Rural Residences
Conjoint measurement is introduced as an appropriate method for characterising the nature of consumer preferences for various types of rural residence. After a review of the major conceptual and technical issues in conjoint analysis, a study involving twenty-two potential homebuyers in southern Ontario is described. The results indicate that potential buyers are seeking privacy (medium-size or large lots in isolated locations) above all other thi…
A framework for modeling the consumption of health services by the rural elderly
Elderly migration and its implications for service provision in rural communities
The Turnaround of the Turnaround? Rural Population Change in Canada, 1976 to 1986
This article represents an extension of an earlier paper on the rural population turnaround in Canada. It provides an updated analysis of rural growth rates for(1) two periods, 1976–81 and 1981–86, (2) provincially based regions, and (3) area types based on proximity to urban centres. Unlike the earlier study, it also provides a comprehensive comparison of rural‐versus‐urban rates of population change in a regional and area type framework and int…
Reclassification and Rural‐versus‐urban Population Change in Canada, 1976–1981
The problem of changing definitions of rural and urban populations is examined using official data for Canada. Two counts of rural and urban populations for 1976 are available. One uses 1976 areas and definitions, and the other applies 1981 parameters to the 1976 data. "The purpose of this article is to establish in some detail both the nature and sources of the differences in rates of rural-versus-urban growth between the two data sets available…
On the importance of place in studies of rural aging
Space in its place
Political science (37 works) · Sociology (35 works) · Economics (30 works) · Geography (27 works) · Business (24 works) · Economic growth (24 works) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (23 works) · Medicine (21 works) · Rural development and sustainability (19 works) · Law (15 works)