Via NYTimes. The city of New York has begun a massive undertaking, turning it’s youthful, energetic metropolis, into a more senior-friendly city. The city has begun making several changes to its city life which include giving citizens more time to cross the street at busy intersections, busing elderly citizens to grocery stores, and allowing artists to use space in senior centers in exchange for conducting art lessons.
With the coming shift in age demographics heavily favoring the +65 citizen, these moves by the city are based on simple economics, as Linda I. Gibbs, New York’s deputy mayor for health and human services points out, “They come not only with their minds and their bodies; they come with their pocketbooks.” With the aging citizen commanding a substantial amount of spending power it is no surprise that other major cities have begun to undergo similar programs as they look to capture more of the aging population and with it their pocketbooks.
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