DALLAS: The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has released a report on the housing challenges being faced by the elderly living in urban environments.
The report looks at how various cities are coping with the challenge.
3. In Lisbon, an explosion in the share of seniors, from 9 percent in 1960 to 24 percent in 2011, has turned the city’s picturesque network of narrow and uneven sidewalks into a trap. So Lisbon set a minimum width of five feet for its sidewalks, and is trying a public-awareness campaign to get drivers and other pedestrians to watch out for seniors on foot.