Geography of the aging

Geography of the aging or geography gerontologyc is an emergent field of knowledge of the Human Geography that analyses the implications socioespaciales of the aging of the population from the understanding of the relations between the physical surroundings-social and the greater people, to different scales, micro (city, region, country), etc.
From the decade of 1970 in different developed countries, like United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, France, Spain, Australia, New Zealand and Japan, have arisen increasing studies centred in the understanding of the space patterns of the aging of the population, as well as relative appearances to the residential changes and provision of services of health and social.
Between the geógrafos of the aging stands out S. Harper, who identified the phenomenon of the aging associated to the social construction of the old age and to the processes of residential mobility of this group to the urban periphery, mainly residences of elderly and houses protected.
The contribution of the geógrafos of the aging, as Graham D. Rowles, SM. Golant, S. Harper, G. Laws, are contributing to the environmental gerontology comprising the environmental appearances of the gerontology in developed countries and developing.
In Latin America, different researchers, as María Inés Ortiz and Diego Sánchez-González, have shed light on the deepening in thematic like the environment built and the quality of life of the elderly, the residential strategies for the maintenance of the greater people in the communities, the climate and the environmental vulnerability that the greater people can be exposed, as well as in the apego to the place, the social exclusion, the leisure, the tourism and the planning geriátrica.
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