Ageing and Quality of Life - New Responses from the Real Estate Sector in Portugal (1)

• Authors: Fátima De Matos
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In the second half of the 20th century, the history of European demography is associated with a pronounced and widespread process of ageing. The 21st century will have to cater to the needs of an elderly population in transformation. Portugal is also part of this process and in efforts to improve the quality of life of the elderly, a wide range of facilities, services and social responses have been established by a variety of promoters, targeting several social levels. This paper will analyze a specific segment directed at an exclusive niche of the elderly population, the Senior Residential Condominiums. This is a very recent segment of the housing market, with high levels of comfort, quality, sanitation, health, and recreation, essential to full well-being. The paper intends to characterize this real estate market niche so as to identify its distinctive features, the promoting agents and how they can contribute to residents' quality of life.

Keywords

EN

Portugal; ageing; quality of life; senior residential condominiums

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 15
• Pages: 57-69

Dates

published

2011-01-01

online

2011-05-19

Contributors

author

Fátima De Matos

• University Of Porto, Portugal

References

• CEDRU (Centro de Estudos e Desenvolvimento Regional e Urbano) in cooperation with a B oston Consulting Group, 2008: Estudo de avaliação das necessidades dos Seniores em Portugal, Lisboa.
• Grundy, E. 1996: Population Ageing in Europe In: Coleman, D. editor, Europe's Population in the 1990's, New York: Oxford University Press, Chapter 8.
• Hawes, C. and Philips, C.D. 2000: A National study of assisted living for the frail Elderly-Final Summary Report, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
• Instituto Nacional de Estatística (National Statistics Institute), 2009: Projecções da população residente em Portugal 2008-2060, Lisboa: INE.
• Lesthaeghe, R. 2004: Europe's demographic issues: fertility, household formation and replacement migration. In: Population Bulletin of the United Nations, Special Issue, No. 44/45.
• Platzer, M. 1992: Pour un habitat accueillant aux services In: Driant, J.-C. editor, Habitat et Villes: l' avenir en jeu, Paris: L'Harmattan, pp. 115-162.
• Rivlin, A.M. and Wiener, J.M. 1988: Caring for the Disabled Elderly: Who Will Pay? Washington DC: The Brookings Institution.
• Segurança Social, 2006: Respostas Sociais - nomenclatura/conceitos, Lisboa: Direcção-Geral da Segurança Social, da Família e da Criança.
• Szymańska, D., Biegańska, J. and Gil, A. 2009: Rural areas in Poland in the context of changes in population age structure in 1996, 2001 and 2006. In: Szymańska, D. and Domin, D.J. editors, Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series, No. 12, Toruń: Nicolaus Copernicus University Press, pp. 91-108.
• United Nations, 2009: World Population Ageing 2009, New York: Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division.

Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10089-011-0004-y