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Aging in the Contemporary Urban Context: The Mortality Rates of Older Residents in Genoa, Italy

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Abstract

Understanding the need and the lines of the increasing numbers of older residents within the rapidly changing urban environment becomes a priority of urban architects, social gerontologists, city planners, and decision-makers. The aim of this study is to assess the possible association between the living conditions and the urban environments, where aging process is experienced. We propose also a model for secondary analysis of datasets provided by city registry offices that aims to realize a decision support system focused on detailed geo-mapping representation of the city of Genoa, Italy.

While the article derives from several discussions between the authors, Mauro Palumbo is the author of the sections “Introduction” and “Conclusions”, and Stefano Poli is the author of all the remaining sections.

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    This is mainly a statistical definition and not a proper sociological definition of older people. Indeed, aging factors are only partially related to chronological age [13]. Nevertheless, we performed separate analysis raising the chronological age and considering people aged 75 and over: this did not change the results, while the observed associations emerged even as reinforced.

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    SDI and BDI are not the only possible indices for the observed dimensions; nevertheless, they have been adopted in this study because they are formally provided by the Italian official statistics to calculate deprivation dimensions at the census section level for those socioeconomically disadvantaged zones needing targeted and specific interventions (ZFU).

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    Mauro Palumbo & Stefano Poli

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Palumbo, M., Poli, S. (2017). Aging in the Contemporary Urban Context: The Mortality Rates of Older Residents in Genoa, Italy. In: Karakitsiou, A., Migdalas, A., Rassia, S., Pardalos, P. (eds) City Networks. Springer Optimization and Its Applications, vol 128. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65338-9_9

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