Platformmeeting Hamburg, 25th november
Our next demographic platform about everyday mobility and participation of older people in the neighbourhood will take place on November 25, 2010, from 13.30 to 18.00 clock in the Johann Daniel Lawaetz Foundation.
Older people want and should participate more in public life. But not all of them can be active in the same way - some for health reasons, on the other hand neighborhoods do not always meet the needs of older people with regard to the infrastructural facilities.
The University of Hamburg examined the everyday life organization of older people in different quarters of Hamburg and presents first results during the conference. In the longitudinal study LUCAS, Longitudinal Urban Cohort Ageing Study, initiated by the Hamburg Albertinen House, since 2000 more than 3.000 seniors in Hamburg have been observed geriatrically and sociologically by an interdisciplinary group of institutions working with elderly.
Key Questions of the investigation are: How do citizens of certain birth cohorts get older in the first decade of the millennium in a big city like Hamburg? Which biographical reserves and external conditions favor and which interfere with healthy aging in independence? Despite of all differences, can phases and aspects of aging be identified which are particularly favorable to mobility support or set inevitable limitations to it? What are the potential and needs that can and must be expected in an aging urban society?
The demands of an aging urban community is taken up by the City of Hamburg in different concepts: Open space planning is concerned with the possibilities of "luring" the elderly into the urban space, and in a Printed matter of the Senate the concept of "Senior Friendly Hamburg" shall be adopted in 2011. Both approaches and concepts are presented on the platform event.
Programm Demographie-Plattform Hamburg
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