La tercera edad en el ámbito urbano de Loja

Abstract

In our country the lack of knowledge of the elderly leads us to marginalize and isolate it without taking into account that they are people who are fulfilling a life cycle with characteristics different from the children and young people. By the year 2050 in Ecuador there will be 3 million senior adults replacing the million existing today and children who are 33% of the population will be 20% resulting in cities with a high rate of old age in our country , 9% of the population is elderly, of which 5 out of 100 are poor. The ignorance of the living conditions of the elderly by the architects and the society generates that projects are carried out without considering the impact of these on the elderly, since the subject of design for the elderly is not approached in the classrooms of The university or specialized subjects, to know more about the old man will help us to take them into account in the urban-architectural projects, with the purpose of eliminating the dependence of these people, and to return the territory that belongs to them within the city. The needs of a group of society can not be solved if it is not known, so the present thesis work has the purpose of exposing the situation of the old man in our dudad, straw that serves as a base in the realization of architectural projects And urban, within the classrooms of our School of Architecture and at the professional level.