Definition
An age-friendly city adapts its structures and services to be inclusive for diverse older adults. By doing so, the enabling environments and communities are built to foster healthy and active aging and to improve the quality of life of older people. An age-friendly future city is a city where older adults’ voices and needs are at the heart of the urban agenda, where government commits to making its city age-friendly, and where diverse stakeholders and cross-cutting sectors cooperate to support age-friendly city building. Age-friendly future cities are all-age-friendly cities that foster intergenerational solidarity, embrace social justice lens to promote equal aging, and are evenly developed across the globe.
Introduction
In the twenty-first century, cities across the globe are becoming home to larger and older populations. The age-friendly city approach informed by the active aging paradigm has...
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Ma, M., Joshi, G. (2022). Age-Friendly Future Cities. In: Brears, R.C. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87745-3_153
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