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This chapter aims to review the importance for older people of using, accessing and occupying spaces in the city. Based on data collected through research carried out in the City of Seville and published in various formats, the differences in the use of spaces according to the age of the population, the deficits that these spaces show, and their relationship with the situation of dependency on older people are shown. This work establishes a direct relationship between the social integration of older people, with the degree of participation in the society in which they find themselves, and therefore, with the use and access to the different spaces of sociability, which is definitely where they exercise this social participation. In relation to the data obtained, we provide conclusions and guidelines that may be of interest to technicians, researchers, land planners and those who can decide on policies that modify the urban space.
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Algarín, E.B., Vázquez-Fernández, M.J., Sarasola Fernández, A. (2020). Analysis of the Sociability of Older People in Urban Environments. In: Sarasola Sánchez-Serrano, J., Maturo, F., Hošková-Mayerová, Š. (eds) Qualitative and Quantitative Models in Socio-Economic Systems and Social Work. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 208. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18593-0_23
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