Towards a geographical contribution to gerontology

Warnes, Anthony

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“…Although introduced many decades ago, only a dozen or so studies have explicitly refined this model (see Litwak & Longino, 1987;Wiseman, 1980). Warnes (1981), at the Center for Ageing and Rehabilitation Studies at University of Sheffield, is among the few to "place the lifecourse model in social and historical context" and suggests recent "changes have mediated the impact of lifecourse events on geographic mobility [and] migration upon retirement is prominent only in late-industrial societies" (Walters, 2002a, p.39;Warnes, 1992Warnes, , 2010. A case in point refers to migration due to apprenticeship or widowhood being common during the early 20th century.…”

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Appreciating migration flows for health/social services planning: A case study of older adults leaving from New York to Florida

Sharma

2015

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Appreciating migration flows for health/social services planning: A case study of older adults leaving from New York to Florida

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2015

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“…An early approach by both geographers and gerontologists was to claim the intersection as a subfield of gerontology, to consider it ‘gerontology done geographically’. As classical review articles at the time suggested, research that could make a ‘geographical contribution to gerontology’ and address ‘geographical questions in gerontology’ (Warnes 1981, 1990). Such a relationship is depicted in Figure 1 (where gerontology is the bolder, more predominant colour, which geography simply alters at the intersection).…”

Section: Intersection Of Geography and Gerontology: Structures And Comentioning

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“…Demographic and population ageing research have longstanding traditions in both geography and gerontology (Rudzitis 1984; Warnes 1981). Within both disciplines, this field of study is dominated by quantitative work on older populations by population geographers and demographers (Kinsella and Phillips 2005; Kinsella and Velkoff 2001).…”

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Geographical Gerontology: Mapping a Disciplinary Intersection

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The intersection between geography and gerontology arises structurally in institutions and intellectually both in academic debates surrounding disciplinary territoriality and substantive fields of empirical inquiry (population ageing and movement; services and policy; living environments; emplacement; emotions, images and the body). Although recent years have witnessed an increasing theoretical convergence between geography and gerontology – resulting in ever fertile ground for research – a range of contemporary social processes have yet to receive substantive attention. Arising as consumer niches and economic networks, these involve connectivity across geographical scales from the local to the global. Although they provide opportunities and enrich lives, they also contribute to the continued disadvantage of older people in the developing world. We argue that addressing these in research is not only morally justifiable, it potentially generates a distinct body of theoretical knowledge that might inform ongoing empirical work.

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“…The chastening fact is that my place interests have been suppressed to such an extent that neither the intrinsic difficulty nor the value of attempting to write an explanatory description of the social geography of either a single or a number of retirement towns has previously been recognized (Warnes 1981(Warnes , 1983. It was the retirement function of coastal resorts that first stimulated my interest in the migration behaviour of older people.…”

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Places and people: Reflections on their study in social geography

Warnes

1984

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The epistemological roles of sociology and geography are discussed in an attempt to identify the scope of social geography. The examination begins by rejecting the methodological exceptiona]ism of either sociology or geography, partly on the basis of an assertion that both require the scientific investigation of multiple cases and the development of understanding by means of subjectively guided integrations, sometimes of specific cases. It is concluded that the two subjects are defined most satisfactorily by their focal subject matters. The wide scope ascribed to sociology by Comte is supported even though it implies that social geography is virtually synonymous with human geography. Emphasis is placed on the role of geography as the study of places. Both the nature of places and the methods required for their study demonstrate again the interdependence of nomothetic spatial investigations and of place-related syntheses. The final sections of the paper argue pragmatically that although the programme for social geography can be defined as no less than that of human geography, in practice social geographical studies might reasonably concentrate on those aspects which are neglected by economic, political and historical geographers. These include the geographical aspects of those microscopic and mesoscopic groups and institutions which express affective, affirmative, cultural, recreational and spiritual aspects of social life. It is also accepted that social geography has recently neglected a task which no other subject approaches, the writing of explanatory descriptions of areally defined social complexes with emphasis upon their geographical context and structure.

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Towards a geographical contribution to gerontology

Cited by 41 publications

References 73 publications

Appreciating migration flows for health/social services planning: A case study of older adults leaving from New York to Florida

Appreciating migration flows for health/social services planning: A case study of older adults leaving from New York to Florida

Geographical Gerontology: Mapping a Disciplinary Intersection

Places and people: Reflections on their study in social geography

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