Ideas for Serving Your Aging Community
In my last posting (What's all this about Livability and Age-friendliness, May 2016) I talked about the broad ideas of what livability and age-friendliness mean. I described the World Health Organization's (WHO) and AARP's recognition that throughout the world we are getting older. WHO states that "the number of people aged 65 or older is projected to grow from an estimated 524 million in 2010 to nearly 1.5 billion in 2050 (WHO)." This age distribution will never reverse to a point where there will be greater numbers of younger people as compared to older people. We are headed into a permanent state of agedness. The question then becomes - how to plan for this in a thoughtful way.
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