Envelhecimento E Qualidade De Vida

Spatial dynamics of ageing in large urban aglomerations

“…In line with the results of Guidugli (2002) and Oliveira (2006), we stress that both central areas, the first districts to be occupied, and those highly valued areas of the MRV, are deeply related to the areas of concentration of the elderly population. Although both have, as part of the explanation, the spatial (re)distribution of the population in prime areas, some of them newly formed, the impact of migration is even more evident.…”

“…What is observed in MRV in the 2010 data in relation to the spatia l dynamics of ageing has the same conditions as those presented for São Carlos by Guidugli (2002) and Oliveira (2006). The speeding up of ageing in Brazil poses new challenges, though, a perspective backed by previous data from the 2022 Census.…”

“…This phenomenon, and because females enjoy greater longevity, brought consequently a feminization of ageing in the urban environment. Oliveira (2006) warns that ageing is heterogeneous, as well as other demographic issues, because it results from economic, cultural, and social dynamics. Regarding the territory, especially in large urban agglomerations, the specific dynamics of urban expa nsion conditions the spatial redistribution of the population from residential mobility and intrametropolitan migration, with well-marked characteristics of the population, even in terms of age (DOTA, 2015;CUNHA, 2018).…”

“…On the urban scale, therefore, it is possible to reflect the diversity of ageing patterns in dialogue with the very logic of the production of space. Oliveira (2006) and Guidugli (2002), analyzing the case of São Carlos, a municipality in São Paulo, uncovered a trend depicting a geographic concentration of the elderly population in central areas. According to the authors, it is related to income issues, as the younger population tends to present lower average wages and is more likely to be pushed to peripheral areas, in a process of relative ageing, that is, not only by the movement of the elderly people but by the whole of society.…”