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")