ABSTRACT
This chapter explores population geography and geographical gerontology to examine the population geographies of the older population. It is divided into six parts: global trends; comparing regions and countries; national geographies; ageing in place, migration and immigration; other geographies of the older population; and other older populations, other geographies. The geographic distribution is not only determined by ageing in place and the older population who are movers but is also determined by the changing behaviour of younger age cohorts. All things being equal, the older population will inevitably grow in size relative to other age cohorts because of declining fertility rates. The new geography of the older population now receiving increasing attention is the reinvention of communities in rural areas as retirement communities or simply as communities increasingly dominated by an older population. The ageing of the global population will be a transcendent phenomenon of the twenty-first century.
