This chapter discusses the design of the NDA Programme, examining six different NDA projects. These projects range from virtual images to step and stair negotiations, to clothing design and manufacture. The chapter begins with a discussion of the aspects of ageing that are critical to the design process, such as inclusion, staying active, feeling connected and empowerment. It then considers designer competencies and interactions with user groups. It examines two specific projects, ‘Design for Ageing Well’ and ‘Transitions in Kitchen Living’. The chapter ends with a discussion of synergy across the six projects, despite the different research emphases and disciplinary contributors.
The main objective of this edited volume is to explore the motivations, decision making processes, and consequences, when older people consider or accomplish return migration to their place of origin; and also to raise the public policy profile of this increasingly important subject. The book examines in detail a range of themes affecting return migrations, including: family ties, obligations and their emotive strengths; comparative quality, and cost, of health and welfare provision in host and home countries; older age transitions and cultural affinity with homeland; and psychological adjustment, belonging and attachment to place.
quality, and cost, of health and welfare provision in host and home countries; and older age transitions and cultural affinity with homeland. Such issues are rightly receiving an increasing amount of research attention, although research findings tend to be as scattered, in terms of their reporting, as the countries being studied. This book provides a much needed synthesis of wide ranging, highly relevant studies and also, importantly, brings together key contributions whose fusion promotes a keen appreciation of these issues in respect of their policy and
conclusions: it is not easy to define midlife through the notion of chronological age; and the margins around people’s forties and fifties are very flexible, and people can have midlife lifestyles, economics and social outlooks in their thirties and well into their sixties. Taking the first of Staudinger and Bluck’s (2001 ) conclusions, it is clear that definition of midlife based on age is an oversimplification. And very similar discussions take place in research on youth and older age transitions. Chronological age and lifecourse transitions are relational. In the
In the 21st century, global demographics are rapidly changing, with a higher population of middle-aged people than ever before. As the ‘sandwich’ generation, people in midlife often experience significant work and intergenerational caring responsibilities, yet they are the subject of relatively little research.
This short, accessible book redresses the balance in offering a geographical approach to how people embody and claim space in midlife while analysing the influences of gender, class and location. The author considers midlife in varying socio-cultural and geographical contexts, viewed through the lens of the global neoliberal shift.
