Space as Capital or Why Geography Matters for Ageing

This is the authors' abstract. We don't add key points for this paper.

People do not age in a spatial vacuum.They all age somewhere, and the place of ageing has impacts." (Krout and Hash, 2015)"In Flanders we have these horrible ribbon buildings along stone roads: how can an older person continue to live there if he is no longer able to walk well?Then he can no longer even safely cross the stone road to visit a friend or do an errand.We do not think enough on such obstacles.If we want everyone to be able to integrate into our society-which already sounds better than 'socialization of care'-we must ensure, among other things, that there are enough local shops, buses and trams run and activities are organized".