Age-friendly Cities and Calgary: Evaluating for Success

Abstract

The demographic bubble represented by the Baby Boomer generation is beginning to graduate into that stage of life known as senior citizenry and, as such, there will be a shift in the overall distribution of the global population from a majority of young people to a majority of older people. By 202, there will for the first time be more old people than there are young people in the world. The City of Calgary, however, lags far behind many other cities in Canada and in the world in terms of preparation for this change.