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HUMAN GEOGRAPHY  2017, Vol. 32 Issue (6): 24-31    DOI: 10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2017.06.003
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FROM SPACE TO PLACE: PROGRESS IN GEOGRAPHICAL GERONTOLOGY OF WESTERN COUNTRIES
YANG Jun-long1,2, TAO Wei1,2
1. School of Geography Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China;
2. Cultural Industry and Cultural Geography Research Center, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China

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Abstract  As the aging problem accumulating, social gerontology, an integrated discipline which studies aging, has attracted the attention of scholars from various disciplines since 1970s. Scholars make effort to study gerontology through geographical perspective, which gradually formed an inter-discipline, gerontological geography. The rise of New Humanistic Geography in 1990s extended the research content of gerontological geography from focusing on the "space" at the macro level, like spatial characteristic and effects of aged population, daily behavior and migration, care and living condition,ect. to the "place" at the micro level, like special negotiation of the aged (individual), physical practice, emotional experience. In terms of the cognition of aging, it presents a trend of "De Problem". With the development of consumerism and humanism, scholars have put forward the positive concept of "active aging" and "successful aging" to clarify the contribution that the aged group made for the society. In terms of its development trend, the gerontological geography tries to explore the linkage between geography and other subjects such as health and care. An introduction and analyze of foreign gerontological geography is presented in this paper in dimensions of space" and place". In the discussion and conclusion part, we analyze the differences between domestic and foreign research and its enlightenment.
Key wordsgerontological geography      space      place      aging     
Received: 11 July 2016     
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