ABSTRACT
Literature on local government response to aging, including some of the other chapters in this volume, is replete with excellent examples of the ways that municipalities reform their communities—either physically or programmatically—to make them more welcoming of older adults. The aging of the American population requires local leaders to create more supportive environments for older citizens. While this represents an important movement in urban planning and service provision, it reinforces the traditional mode of government policymaking, which treats each segment of a community within a separate silo, in this case age-segregated silos.
