PHILADELPHIA: One answer to the question of how to house the rapidly aging UK population is to use an intergenerational model, that mixes housing for all ages, from young to old.
The problem of how to house Britain’s expanding population of older people presents one of the most acute social and economic challenges of the day. The demographics, stimulated by falling birth rates and improved life expectancy, are startling. While the population of those aged 15 to 64 in the UK is expected to increase by an average of 29,000 per year, the population of those over the age of 65 is estimated to balloon by almost 10 times that number to an increase of 278,000 every year…..