ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the impact of broader societal changes on neighbourhoods and consequently on older people. It considers the concept of everyday life as a lens through which to consider the adequacy of neighbourhood. Critical to an understanding of the role played by place in supporting wellbeing, the everyday life approach explores home and neighbourhood as both spatial and social envelopes. It emphasizes both the individual in their home and on the street but also it encapsulates a being together in shared space; a connection through common activities performed outside and a spatial container for shared action. In the UK, the influential New Economics Foundation set out a wellbeing manifesto in an attempt to define on what issues central government could take action that would promote individual and society wide wellbeing. Older people, facing physical or cognitive change, may rely on their environmental resources to preserve their preferred pattern of living.
