{"id":10118,"date":"2019-11-10T11:20:54","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T17:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayoresdehoy.com\/?p=10118"},"modified":"2019-11-10T11:20:54","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T17:20:54","slug":"why-are-there-so-few-age-friendly-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayoresdehoy.lat\/index.php\/2019\/11\/10\/why-are-there-so-few-age-friendly-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are There So Few Age-Friendly Cities?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Why are a few communities, like New York and Portland, Ore., working to become more age-friendly for their residents but so many others aren\u2019t? Is it due to political leadership and canniness (or a lack of it)? Do the age of the residents, the workforce and the local customers have an effect? Does it come down to whether there\u2019s money in a city\u2019s budget?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Consider:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>There are only 60 U.S. communities in the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aarp.org\/livable-communities\/network-age-friendly-communities\/info-2014\/member-list.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AARP Network of Age-Friendly Communities<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Mayors in just 136 of the nation\u2019s 19,000 cities signed the Milken Institute\u2019s 2014\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/successfulaging.milkeninstitute.org\/mayors-pledge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Best Cities for Successful Aging Mayor\u2019s Pledge<\/a><\/strong>, \u201ccommitting to make their cities work better for older adults and to enable older adults to strengthen their cities and improve lives for all generations through purposeful work and volunteerism\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The World Health Organization\u2019s (WHO)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/sree\/Reports?op=vs&amp;path=\/WHO_HQ_Reports\/G21\/PROD\/EXT\/GNAFCC%202\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Global Age-friendly Cities and Communities<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0list has merely 258 cities and communities in 30 countries around the world<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The National League of Cities\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlc.org\/find-city-solutions\/city-solutions-and-applied-research\/state-of-the-cities-2015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>2015: State of the Cities Report<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>is silent about efforts to make cities more age-friendly<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><em>Aging Nation, But Few Age-Friendly Communities<\/em><\/h3>\n<p><em>Clearly, there aren\u2019t many age-friendly places at a time when the United States is looking at a doubling of its older population in the next 20 to 25 years. The Milken Institute\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextavenue.org\/here-are-best-cities-successful-aging\/\">Successful Aging report<\/a>\u00a0said overall progress \u201cremains too slow\u201d fostering age-friendly policies and practices in the U.S.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe aging community is at fault as much as anyone,\u201d says John Feather, Chief Executive Officer of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.giaging.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grantmakers in Aging<\/a>, whose Community AGEnda Initiative with the Pfizer Foundation has made over $4 million in grants to five age-friendly projects in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Indiana and the greater Kansas City area. <span style=\"color:#808080;\"><strong>\u201cWe have not done enough to make clear that aging is not about old people. If we make it about the frail old, we are not going to be successful to get age-friendly communities and will never get the political will,\u201d<\/strong><\/span> notes Feather.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Lisa Warth, who oversees WHO\u2019s Global Network of Age-friendly Cities and Communities, looks to the communities themselves. <span style=\"color:#808080;\"><strong>\u201cCities and communities, their infrastructures and services are still predominantly oriented at the needs and schedules of the able-bodied working population,\u201d<\/strong><\/span> she told me \u201cand are only slowly adapting to the diverse capacities, realities, needs and preferences of their residents.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextavenue.org\/bright-spots-and-challenges-growing-older\/\">Paul Irving<\/a>, Chairman for the Future of Aging at the Milken Institute, says some cities \u201cbenefit by a collection of infrastructure characteristics\u201d that make them more age-friendly than others, such as a vibrant mass transit system. But, Irving adds, \u201cI think a lot of it has to do with leadership.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextavenue.org\/why-are-there-so-few-age-friendly-cities\/\">Why Are There So Few Age-Friendly Cities?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are a few communities, like New York and Portland, Ore., working to become more age-friendly for their residents but<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mayoresdehoy.lat\/index.php\/2019\/11\/10\/why-are-there-so-few-age-friendly-cities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Are There So Few Age-Friendly Cities?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[901,741,347,132,871,80],"class_list":["post-10118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gerontodiseno","tag-age-friendly-cities","tag-comunidades-amigables-con-las-personas-mayores","tag-english","tag-envejecimiento","tag-eua","tag-personas-mayores"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why Are There So Few Age-Friendly Cities? 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