How age ghettos cheat the old – and the young

Homogenous: Societys increasing segmentation and segregation into age ghettos could be costly for the old and young.

Many societies have found ways to keep the generations in closer proximity to one another. Failure to do so leads to a disconnect.

I used to dread visiting my wife’s parents in their retirement community in Florida, the United States. They had left their co-op apartment in a diverse and vibrant neighbourhood in Manhattan when my mother-in-law was having trouble breathing the particle-laden New York City air.