Discussion Post
In response to the week seven discussion post, ‘when mobility makes sense,’ it is vivid to reiterate qualitatively that the majority of the elderly hopes to grow old in the suburbs (Coletta, 2017). The hope depends on their willingness and ability to buy cars and be able to drive. The mobility of cars in the suburbs is a symbol of development because people need to move from one place to the other.
Mobility for the elderly will go through a lot of evolution because of changes in authority and sovereign rule. However, the movement of older people depends on how many trips they can make in a day. Research is considering the temporal angle of aging in human beings as a process going through an evolution. This essay focuses on an agreement with how the aging population stays indoors and in the neighborhood against adapting to reduce independence and being mobile over a long period.
An interview conducted on a caboodle of 22 suburbanites aged between 60 to 95 in 1999 and 2019, and then it showed that, even if the aging population succeeds in increasing mobility, they are always set to be immobile (Coletta, 2017). The strategies identified are constructed behavior, dependency, and demanding additional supports. Other plans considered environmental include, their social life, moderate experiences of being mobile in the city, the town that shrinks, the fragmenting town, and the proxy city. The environment identified is at the center of an intensive process in which the adaptation of being mobile contributes to the introduction of new settlement experiences.
In conclusion, it is clear that for the majority of the elderly population to have a healthy lifestyle, free of stress, and to counter rapid aging, they ought to take an interest in either moving around far away. Besides walking around, the elderly also need to develop adaptation strategies that would enable them to run smoothly. These adaptation strategies should be able to keep the elderly moving around regularly.