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Student loans company: Milan's age-defying solution to high rents

The Adopt a Student cohabitation programme brings young and older people together in Italy’s most expensive city

Published: 2:30 AM

What would an age-friendly city look like?

As the world’s population grows older and more urban, cities around the world must decide how to adapt

Published: 2:30 AM

Credit cards, but no sake: Japan lowers age of adulthood from 20 to 18

The age change means 18-year-olds will be able to marry and apply for loans, but will still have to wait until 20 to drink or gamble

Published: 12:27 AM

Hong Kong's 'cardboard grannies': the elderly box collectors living in poverty

Inadequate support for Hong Kong’s ageing population means for some older citizens, scavenging and selling boxes and scrap is the only way to scrape by

Published: 2:00 AM

Silver screen: the film festival putting older people at the heart of the plot

Across the arts, old age is either portrayed as a bleak struggle or ignored altogether. An event in Frankfurt and Stuttgart aims to rewrite the script

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Sí, seniors: the Chilean city with grand plans to be the best place to grow old

Promising supervised flats, nursing homes and levelled streets, Valdivia’s Gerontological Hub project is tackling Chile’s ageing crisis head-on. Can it offset the country’s shockingly low privatised pensions?

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The slow lane: Dutch app allows elderly to 'hack' traffic lights

With sensors and smartphones to make roads more flexible, Tilburg is addressing the question: how can a city become safer for less able residents?

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Forget-me-nots in Purley: how the town became 'dementia friendly'

The Croydon suburb has been named a safe space for people with dementia, an idea born in the cities of Japan. Campaigners now want London to become the world’s first dementia-friendly capital – but what would that mean?

Published: 7:00 AM

Resilient cities Singapore's 'silver tsunami': how the city-state depends on its elderly workforce

In Singapore, where life expectancy is soaring, the elderly are encouraged to exchange retirement for arduous jobs that often pay badly – yet many of its citizens, including Wong Kuan Ying, are only too keen to oblige

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'Being alive is just fantastic': how ageing Londoners view their city – and life

Inspired by Humans of New York, photographer Cathy Teesdale records the stories of strangers and friends across London to understand humanity in the capital city. Here she shares some powerful thoughts from its older generation

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Health in cities The fall-less city and other innovations for a healthier old age

Sarah Harper

Rapid urbanisation and ageing populations mean that cities must become better for older people to live in. We have the technology to make this happen

Published: 9:13 AM

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Never too old to play: playgrounds for the elderly – in pictures

Cities around the world have been designing outdoor gyms and play areas for older generations to improve fitness and wellbeing. Even non-specialist playgrounds are getting multi-generational. Play’s not just for kids...

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'Teach young people we are not going to move over': stories of ageing in cities

From tackling isolation in Leicester to better footpaths in Dhaka, you shared your experiences of how cities could be improved for older generations

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Which cities have the oldest residents?

By 2020, the global population of people over 60 will outnumber children under five for the first time. How will our ageing communities affect urban life – and where is the phenomenon most noticeable?

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London without old people is just a factory floor, with no past and no future

Harry Leslie Smith

The capital is a cruel city for the elderly if they are not in the moneyed 1%. Old age has separated me from much of the city that once gave me happiness – but it doesn’t need to be this way

Published: 6:00 AM

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Improving with age? How city design is adapting to older populations

As cities experience a demographic shift, the need for age-friendly design is becoming ever more critical. From almshouses to driverless cars, the future of urban housing and mobility may just be shaped for and by the elderly

Published: 5:11 AM

Extreme cities What's the world's loneliest city?

In Tokyo, you can rent a cuddle. Loneliness is a health issue in Manchester. And perhaps nobody is as isolated as a migrant worker in Shenzhen. But can we really know what makes a city lonely?

Published: 3:00 AM

How can cities be improved for older people? Share your experiences

Cities around the world are seeing a rise in ageing populations. Wherever you live, share your experiences of urban life in older age and how it can be improved

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