How to Help Seniors Rock City Life

A new report issued by McGraw Hill Financial Global Institute provides new thinking about how to create "age-friendly cities."

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January 28, 2016, 7:00 AM PST

By urbanguy

"The [McGraw Hill Financial Global Institute] report highlights four ways in which we can help gram and gramps rock the city life: build transportation systems and infrastructure that they can use, offer housing designed to let them 'age in place,' make sure they have access to community health centers, and create opportunities for them to keep working, learning, and being active, if they so choose," according to an article by Suzanne Jacobs.

"New York and Sausalito, Calif., are already on the right track, according to the report. New York, for example, redesigned some of its intersections to better accommodate elderly pedestrians — again, because making sure that old people don’t get hit by cars is the least we could do. Sausalito, meanwhile, upped its elderly game with a free car service for people 60 and older called Call a Ride Sausalito Seniors."

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