ABSTRACT
Ageing shapes, and is shaped by, geographies of health. Health geographies of ageing have moved from a biomedical emphasis on health as the absence of disease to embrace more holistic socio-ecological understandings of ageing and health in social, physical and symbolic contexts. Health geographers examine the relationship between people and their physical, social and symbolic environments. They focus on the distribution of and engagement with health, illness and a wide variety of resources for health, from the most intimate level of the body through to regional and global scales.
