Urban Ageing-Challenges, Spatialities and Gender Perspective

Dear Colleagues,

The population is aging rapidly, and this is particularly evident in cities. This demographic shift is not uniform across communities and has been strongly related to gender. Spatial aging discrepancies within cities may be associated with a certain tendency toward territorially divergent concentration of process determinants. Hence, as the older population are expected to fully participate in an aging and urbanizing society, urban aging has a number of implications for public and societal life as well as private spending on pensions, healthcare, education, economic growth, and welfare. By making cities and human settlements safe and resilient for the elderly, governments have been raising the issue of international strategies of inclusive and sustainable development. Men and women both experience urban aging and many of the same diseases or conditions, but the ways they face them differ in terms of the rates, trends, and disease types or subtypes. Spatial and gender perspectives have become increasingly relevant to our understanding of urban aging and should therefore be applied to any issue under discussion.

This Special Issue of Societies seeks research papers on innovative theoretical and methodological approaches in studies on urban aging, but also papers comparing aspects of aging in urban, suburban, or rural settings. Papers addressing gender-related dimensions in aging are especially welcome. In this Special Issue, we also aim to cover the impact of spatiotemporal trend changes on older urban population data. We will prioritize (but are not limited to) well-designed studies that use mixed-methods approaches (qualitative and quantitative) to show the multifaceted relationship between aging and cities. We hope this Special Issue can provide additional high-quality research to support the existing and growing evidence base.

Dr. Elzbieta Antczak
Dr. Karolina Lewandowska-Gwarda
Guest Editors

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