Aging in America: Why do we make it so hard for seniors?

This month we ask whether our built environment serves older adults well as they age—and how that has an impact on all of us, regardless of age.

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Want to read more on this episode’s topic? Here’s just a short list of interesting resources:

• Improving with age? How city design is adapting to older populations
• Designing Better Urban Spaces for the Aging
• Designing cities for the aged | E&T Magazine
• To build an inclusive smart city, look through an age-friendly lens
• Cities Alive: Designing for ageing communities
• Co-designing Urban Living Solutions to Improve Older People's Mobility and Well-Being
• Improving housing and neighborhoods for the vulnerable: older people, small households, urban design, and planning
• How Cities Can Design for Aging Baby Boomers
• Creative Ageing Cities: Place Design with Older People in Asian Cities: Foreward
• Planning and an Aging Population
• How can cities become more inclusive for elderly people? | World Economic Forum
• The cities designing playgrounds for the elderly
• Age-Friendly Built Environments: Opportunities for Local Government
• What Do Seniors Need in Parks?
• Planning for Aging-Friendly Communities
• Five Innovative Ways Cities Are Improving Life for Seniors
• Ten questions concerning age-friendly cities and communities and the built environment
• The US's Neglect of the Elderly Has Turned Murderous

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Hosted by AJ Fawver and Jordan Clark. Edited by Jordan Clark.

Music in this episode: Sounds of the Supermarket, Scott Joplin ("Pineapple Rag"), a 1986 Weather Channel broadcast, and Bing Crosby ("Silver Threads Among the Gold")