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Geographical Gerontology: New Contributions and Spaces For Development
Associate Professor of Occupational Science, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7122
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The study of geographical dimensions of aging has never reached its full potential. Perhaps the best explanation for this state of geography in gerontology is that geographical analysis never had a firm foothold in gerontology in the first place. The geography of aging has been encouraged in its development through the years by the contributions of geographers such as Graham Rowles, Stephen Golant, Glenda Laws, Mark Rosenberg, and a few others who followed them, such as Gavin Andrews. Yet, only a fraction of the depth and scope of the collected theories, concepts, and methods of geography have been applied to gerontological thinking and research. Relatively few geographers have engaged the problems and opportunities of gerontology, and as a result, only part of geography's power to influence gerontology (or gerontology's chance to gain from geography) has been implemented. As a case in point, the lack of interest in aging by geographers
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