Aging in the Right Place

Communities are not suited to an aging population and indeed, isolation, and transportation are going to be problematic, indeed, they already are.

One of the challenges, I have argued before, is that people staying in detached homes in car-dependent suburbs for as long “as they would like to” is actually part of the problem – the other part is that we don’t have good alternatives to staying in car-dependent suburban environments nor do we have trusted pathways to get viable alternatives.

Staying in a car-dependent, low-density, low-service environment could curtail the length of time that people can live independently in the community and hasten their need for housing options like LTC, retirement homes, etc.