{"id":4467,"date":"2013-12-03T10:51:14","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T10:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blogs\/502-2\/"},"modified":"2017-07-25T10:22:19","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T14:22:19","slug":"502-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/502-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Older population, new considerations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Copyright AECOM photo by Dixi Carrillo.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Global demographics are shifting dramatically &#8211; we know that a growing majority of people now live in cities, but did you know that &#8220;by 2050 the world will have almost 400 million people aged 80 years or older&#8221;? This is according to John Beard, director of the Department of Ageing and Life Course at the World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland.\u00a0&#8220;Never before have the majority of middle-aged adults had living parents,&#8221; points out Beard. &#8220;By 2050, 80 percent of older people will live in low- and middle-income countries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Challenges: age-proofing our cities to make them physically safer and more inclusive for older people, and changing our societal attitudes to work against ageism. Opportunities: increasingly, older people can contribute to society for extra years or decades. They can share with us the wisdom and experience that comes only with time.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about this and watch a video from WHO in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/one.aecom.com\/issue07\/#!\/silver-haired-surfers\">an article from AECOM&#8217;s e-magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Jake_89x100-55.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-520\" src=\"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Jake_89x100-55.jpg\" alt=\"Jake_89x100\" width=\"89\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Jake Herson (jacob.herson@aecom.com) is managing editor of the Connected Cities blog.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Copyright AECOM photo by Dixi Carrillo. Global demographics are shifting dramatically &#8211; we know that a growing majority of people now live in cities, but did you know that &#8220;by 2050 the world will have almost 400 million people aged 80 years or older&#8221;? This is according to John Beard, director of the Department of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":193,"featured_media":4468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[85,191],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-4467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-urban-design","tag-aging-populations","tag-connected-cities"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4467"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}