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Ian McLean Spokesperson for the Green Party |
Bouquets to council for running a series of workshops asking how to make Tauranga more aged-friendly.
The workshops focused on services, such as transportation, access to health facilities, parking, community support, security, and so on. These are mostly provided if one lives in a retirement village and it could be argued that a city well-supplied with retirement villages is already an aged-friendly city.
But for some, retirement villages are unaffordable. The city needs to provide for those folk too, but we should also ask why some people struggle to afford a suitable retirement despite a lifetime of contribution.
As for many of the ills in our society, the answer may lie in the income gap – the simple fact that there are enormous differences in the way wealth is distributed through our society.
Young, old, or just interested? Come and discuss the income gap and its implications at the Wesley Centre, 100 13th Ave, 7:00 pm, Monday 25 February.