Planning for Aging in Place: Stimulating a Market and Government Response
Journal of Planning Education and Research, 37(1): 29-42, 2016
By: Association of the Collegiate Schools of Planning, George Homsy, Lydia Morken, Mildred Warner
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0739456X16642824
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This article discusses the spatial inequity of market-based services in communities with concentrated senior poverty. It argues that it is the role of local government to improve engagement among older adults, to stimulate a market response to service needs, and to enable this response through interventions in the built environment.