Making cities more livable, healthy and age-friendly for the future four-generation urban society is critical and a competitive advantage for cities who act swiftly and decisivel

Rapid urbanization will continue concentrating more than 65% of the world's population in cities by 2050 along with rapid aging, smaller households and fewer children as global phenomena that forces us to reconsider our lifestyles and urban environments. Healthy and age-friendly city concepts are becoming increasingly vital, and the Covid-19 pandemic has become an additional trigger bringing current urban livability and inclusiveness challenges to the surface.

Healthy and Age-Friendly Cities - Best Practices Around the World

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Cities need to optimize public health benefits and enable and promote a healthy, pleasant, safe, engaging life for four-generation urban communities. This has become even more urgently needed during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The demographic change requires age-inclusive urban spaces, facilities, public transport, social and health care services. Health and livability will be key competitiveness factors for cities.

Jaime Galvez-Tan

He has the rare combination of the following expertise: solid grassroots community work in far flung doctorless rural areas; national and international health planning and programming, a faculty of colleges of medicine and health sciences; clinical practice combining North American European medicine with Asian and Filipino traditional medicine; national health policy development, national health field operations management, private sector health business development, research management and local government health development.