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- Title
La cambiante localización de la población mayor en las áreas metropolitanas de Barcelona y Madrid. Análisis comparativo de tendencias espaciales.
- Authors
Gil-Alonso, Fernando; Sanz López-Menchero, Laia; Pujadas-Rúbies, Isabel
- Abstract
The article analyses spatial location pattern changes of elderly people -a potentially vulnerable group within a context of growing ageing-in Spain's two largest urban areas between 1998-2021. Municipality and district stock data (Padrón continuo, INE) show that this population group is growing and, at the same time, reducing its high segregation levels (higher in Madrid than in Barcelona) because of suburbanisation. In 1998, elderly people spatially concentrated in the two metropolitan cores, while younger age groups were mainly found in the suburban peripheries. However, these patterns are changing as baby boomers, who played a leading role in peripheral municipality population growth, are becoming older. This growing volume of elderly population, occupying an increasingly larger area in both metropolises, poses a major policy challenge: the provision of support and care for them. The paper intends to be a contribution to this future planning issue.
- Subjects
BARCELONA (Spain); MADRID (Spain); SPAIN; AGE groups; OLDER people; CITIES &; towns; METROPOLIS; BABY boom generation
- Publication
Revista Española de Sociología, 2023, Vol 32, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
1578-2824
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.22325/fes/res.2023.191