2017 Semester one

In conjunction with the Centre for Rural Economy, the Institute of Health & Society and the Institute

for Social Renewal

Wednesday 8 November, 4 – 5.30 pm

Professor David L. Brown Cornell University

The Ecology of Aging-Related Services in Rural America Populations are aging throughout the global North, with rural populations aging more rapidly than their urban counterparts. Moreover, projections indicate that population aging will continue over the next several decades. This presentation will examine the organization of services in the context extreme population aging. Through over 90 interviews with leaders and policy makers in the public, private, and non-profit sectors, and focus groups with elders in each community, the presentation examines the ways in which the internal organization of communities interacts with external links to higher levels of governance to affect the availability of health care, transportation and other essential services in US rural communities. Population aging presents challenges for rural communities, while at the same time offering opportunities for some residents, in particular kinds of rural places.

CLB 537, fifth floor, Claremont BridgeFollowed by drinks and nibbles.

Professor David L. Brown Cornell University

David L. Brown is International Professor of Development Sociology, Emeritus at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Professor Brown has a long association with Newcastle University. He was a visiting professor in Newcastle University’s School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape

during 2013-2017. Professor Brown is a social demographer whose research focuses on migration and population redistribution in the US and Europe with a particular focus on how migration affects and is affected by local community organization. His work also examines population ageing, the social organization of the urban-rural interface, the production and reproduction of social and economic inequalities between regions and rural vs. urban areas, and policies to ameliorate such inequalities. His recent books include: The International Handbook of Rural Studies (Routledge 2016) (co-edited with Mark Shucsmith), Rural Transformations and Rural Policies in the UK and US (Routledge, 2012) (co-edited with Shucksmith, Shortall and others), Rural Communities in the 21st Century: Resilience and Transformation (Polity, 2011) (with Kai Schafft), Rural Retirement Migration (Springer, 2008) (with Nina Glasgow), Population Change and Rural Society (Springer, 2006) (co-edited with William Kandell). Among other recognition, he received the Distinguished Rural Sociologist award from the Rural Sociological Society: is past president of the Rural Sociological Society; is past chair of the American Sociological Association’s Section on the Sociology of Development; received the Chancellor’s Award for Sustained Professional Service from the State University of New York, and was awarded an honorary doctorate from Rousse University in Bulgaria in

2007 recognizing his contributions to that university’s rural and regional development educational programs.