How age ghettos cheat the old – and the 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.