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Guidelines for Healthier Public Spaces for the Elderly Population: Recommendations in the Spanish Context

2020; Springer International Publishing; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-030-50540-0_3

2468-7235

Ester Higueras García, Emilia Román, José Miguel Fariña,

Health disparities and outcomes

A healthy city is more than a place where the population does not suffer from infectious diseases, epidemics, or there is an effective preventive vaccination control, as in the XX century. A healthy European city will be one that can provide physical, social and environmental well-being, to all its inhabitants (WHO. Bulletin of the World Health Organization (BLT) 88(4):241–320, 2010). Many countries already have guides, recommendations or handbooks, such as Canada, Australia, the United States, or the United Kingdom. As the aged population is increasing all over the world, public spaces need to be adapted to the elderly population. The elderly urban population have specific environmental requirements, they experience different levels of thermal comfort in summer and winter, are more sensitive to extreme temperatures, have more difficulties in moving, and lack cognitive sensations, etc.