Age-friendly Living Environment in Support of Resilient Society in the Bulgarian Context

Abstract

The paper is focused on the important issue of an ageing population and the related need to explore and develop prospective forms of the sustainable age-friendly living environment. Due to the accelerating growth of ageing population, such task is having extremely large economic and social effect worldwide. Prospective trends in the development of a manmade environment for elderly people and their relevance to the Bulgarian situation are investigated. The paper summarises also the results from research in regard to specific problems and opportunities for setting up an age-friendly living environment in Bulgaria and formulates the prospective directions of future development in the context of a resilient society.