Age-friendly cities

Abstract

The paper deals with problems of creating age friendly cities. There are lots of reasons why the problem has to be taken. The author presented demographic and organizational reasons for undertaking activities toward adapting cities for elderly people living conditions. In the paper there are presented activities which have to be taken to guarantee mobility of old people.

Keywords:

age-friendly cities, urban logistics, social logistics, demography

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Published
2020-10-26

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Szołtysek, J. (2020). Age-friendly cities. Studia Miejskie, 10, 67–75. https://doi.org/10.25167/sm.2366

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Jacek Szołtysek 
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3266-0241

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