Growing Old in Cities. Council Housing Estates in Trieste as Laboratories for New Perspectives in Urban Planning | Zendy

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Growing Old in Cities. Council Housing Estates in Trieste as Laboratories for New Perspectives in Urban Planning

Author(s) -

Massimo Bricocoli,

Elena Marchigiani

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

european spatial research and policy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.323

H-Index - 10

eISSN - 1896-1525

pISSN - 1231-1952

DOI - 10.2478/v10105-012-0005-8

Subject(s) - institutionalisation , agency (philosophy) , public housing , work (physics) , aging in place , economic growth , nursing homes , urban planning , political science , environmental planning , sociology , gerontology , geography , civil engineering , engineering , social science , medicine , nursing , law , economics , mechanical engineering

Significant ageing processes are affecting many regions across Europe and are changing the social and spatial profile of cities. In Trieste, Italy, a joint initiative by the public Health Agency and the Social Housing Agency has developed a programme targeting conditions that allow people to age at home. The outcomes of the programme stress the need to redesign and reorganise the living environment as a way to oppose to the institutionalisation of older people in specialised nursing homes. Based on intensive field work, this contribution presents and discusses the original and innovative inputs that the case study is offering to the Italian and European debate

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