Cars, Suburbs, & Aging Society

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Wed May 6 18:30:46 PDT 1998


Another problem about cars + suburbanization that cannot be overlooked is that as we get older, we tend to lose or experience the deterioration of many of our mental & physical abilities: sight, memory, hand-eye coordination, and so on. That means that many of us will also lose our ability to drive a car long before we die. And industrialized nations are seeing larger + larger proportions of their populations falling into the categories of the old and the very old.

Does it make sense to leave lots of elderly people trapped in suburbs (which most likely lack convenient places to shop, to hang out, etc.), carless + immobile + isolated, dependent on the kindness of younger friends who may or may not be always available for help with grocery shopping, doctor appointments, etc.?

Yoshie



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