The Environment-Gerontology Network is focused on how
the physical environment, built and natural, interacts with the lives of older
adults. The network includes researchers, design professionals, and others
interested in how older persons can benefit from improved environmental planning
and design, at all levels of scale.
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Call for Papers: Journal of Housing for the Elderly |
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Journal of Housing for the Elderly
Announces a Special Issue:
Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities
Special Issue Editor: Stacey Grant-Savela, Ph.D.
Deadline for Abstracts: January 31, 2010
Naturally occurring retirement communities (NORCs) are places where a high percentage of older residents live, even though they were not initially planned or marketed with older adults in mind. Since its formal inception in the mid-1980s, NORC has come to be used as an umbrella term and what constitutes a NORC has evolved over time based on the work of researchers, agencies, and policymakers. NORCs vary in terms of location (e.g., urban, rural, suburban areas), scale of the setting (e.g., apartment building, neighborhood), population size, evolution (e.g., aging in place, migration of younger residents), physical and social characteristics, and whether or not formal service programs are included. Although NORCs are one of the most prevalent forms of residential place types for older adults in the United States, relatively little is known about life inside a NORC or how NORCs will impact the housing landscape for older adults.
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Call for Papers: Journal of Aging Studies |
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Call for Papers
Journal of Aging Studies
A Special Issue on “Age and the Cultivation of Place”
Issue Editors: David J. Ekerdt and Keith Diaz Moore, University of Kansas
Among the many settings in which people encounter the material world, none are as meaningful as the places where they dwell—residences, sites, and neighborhoods. The meaning of these locales is less ready-made than cultivated over time as people form attachments to the settings of everyday life. In selecting, furnishing, modifying, and personalizing these environments, they “make themselves at home.”
This special issue of the Journal of Aging Studies welcomes scholarship about the intersection of living spaces and their inhabitants, with a focus upon age-related dimensions of this relation. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Practices and processes: residential decision-making, settling in, use and optimizations of space, leave taking, estrangement, migration, privacy maintenance.
- Physical settings: designs, features, arrangements, attributes, and amenities of environments that encourage attachment to place, or discourage it.
- Agents of cultivation: specialists, family members, and organizations that manage the fit of people and place across age.
Contributions from social, behavioral and health sciences, architecture, planning and design are encouraged. Research, theory, and policy articles are appropriate.
Deadline: The editors request a 1,000-word extended abstract by January 4, 2010. Selected authors will be invited to submit full manuscripts by October 1, 2010. Extended abstracts should be sent electronically to David Ekerdt,
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The Journal of Aging Studies features scholarly papers offering new interpretations that challenge existing theory and empirical work. Articles need not deal with the field of aging as a whole, but with any defensibly relevant topic pertinent to the aging experience and related to the broad concerns and subject matter of the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities. The journal emphasizes innovations and critique - new directions in general - regardless of theoretical or methodological orientation or academic discipline. Critical, empirical, or theoretical contributions are welcome.
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Speaking Opportunities at EFA.08 |
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The Environment for Aging Conference calls itself "the industry's
only professional conference of its kind that focuses on the entire spectrum of
senior living in the active baby boom generation. The conference is produced in
association with The Center for Health Design and the City of Baltimore's
Commission on Aging and Retirement Education (CARE)" and is designed to educate
government and private sector stakeholders about planning and design of
next-generation elder-friendly environments. It will be held from March 18-19, 2008
at the JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort & Spa in Tucson, Arizona.
For Speaking Opportunities at EFA.08 contact:
Angela Skaggs
Project Manager
The Center for Health Design
925.521.9404 x.128
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Joint E-G Network with IAPS |
The Environmental Genontology Network has historically been linked with the Environment and Gerontology Network of IAPS (International Association for People-Environment Studies). The webpage for this joint network is http://research.vu.edu.au/egnet/, and lists members and activities. If you wish to be listed or to update your information, please contact Mark Groves at
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. Our listserv is currently being expanded and updated, and will serve as a vehicle for coordinating symposia and workshops at conferences.
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