Baby Boomers Want Gracefully Age In Place

Urban planning specialist, MDS and aging advisers of all kinds are concerned about the need to reform and improve the suburbs to the increasing number of baby boomers who stuck to accommodate family roots there decades ago.

Suburbs can bypass the enemy vintages because of the high dependence on the car or to achieve even the simplest tasks like shopping. For most suburban areas of the reliability of public transport is rare to nonexistent. Cars are expensive to buy, expensiveto insure and expensive to maintain. For those born on a fixed income, the first non-health priority is the home maintenance, reliable transportation vehicle can be problematic. The loss of the transport leads directly to a loss of independence, frustration and ultimately loss of life.

A recent Wall Street Journal "Making liveable Suburbia" will be offered several examples of communities, the planning of the redesign S-layouts are so that more issues mayAge comfortably without moving out.

These forward-looking communities are:

* The transformation of networks to improve road passable.
* Building homes and condominiums closer to the central city in one place.
* Add greenways and parks to promote social interaction.
* Add social spaces, shops, transport, leisure and entertainment facilities.

The same Wall Street Journal pointed out that lives half the U.S. population in the suburbs andin this group more than 30 million are aged 55-plus, and this number is growing from year to year.

A recent survey showed that 85 percent of people 50-plus does not want to leave their homes or their communities, unless and until quality of life issues make it impossible to stay there.

The Seattle City Council is one such forward-looking community that has adopted a pedestrian master plan.

The objectives of the plan by the Seattle Intelligencer newspaper are:

*Fill a pedestrian system.
* Improving Walkability curbed with sidewalks.
* Enhance pedestrian safety at crossing points areas.
* Create a pleasant and enjoyable public spaces.
* Encouraging more people, for transportation to go recreational, and health.

Many other suburban communities adapt must begin on the demographic trends of today. Sooner rather than later.