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Segregation of a Different Sort: Age-Segregation in the Housing and Accommodation of Older Americans

In keeping with the spatial separation of young and old that is widespread in modern society, many older Americans live almost only with other older Americans. This article explores this age-segregation in nursing homes, public housing, and private retirement communities. In each area, law and public policy support and encourage the segregation, often arguing it is for the benefit of those who are segregated. Quite to the contrary, the age-segregation of older Americans contributes to feelings of loneliness and isolation among seniors and leads many to internalize the idea that they are weak and primarily a burden for the larger society. Younger Americans, meanwhile, lose a sense of the lives and experiences of their elders and are less prepared to for the days when they, too, will become elderly.