Where Are Our Age-Friendly Cities?
South Africa is ageing.
For many years, conversations around health, infrastructure, housing, transport, and community planning have focused mainly on children, youth, and working-age adults. These remain essential priorities, but there is another reality we can no longer ignore: more South Africans are growing older, and our communities must be ready to support them.
So, the question is simple: Where are our age-friendly cities?
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NOFSA – National Osteoporosis Foundation of South Africa
Osteoporosis is a disease in which the density and quality of bones are reduced, leading to weakness of the skeleton and increased risk of fracture, particularly of the spine, wrists, hip, pelvis and upper arms. In many affected people, bone loss is gradual and without warning signs until the disease is advanced. It can result in extreme pain and in severe cases even death.
Osteoporosis is also known as “the silent crippler” because a person usually doesn’t know that they have it until it’s too late. Unfortunately, in many cases, the first real “symptom” is a broken bone. In South Africa, 1 in 3 women and 1 in 5 men will possibly develop this disease within their lifetime – which means potentially between 4 and 6 million South Africans suffer from Osteoporosis.
There are many misconceptions about osteoporosis, for example that it is “an old woman’s disease”. In fact, bone loss in women can begin as early as the age of 25. Furthermore, new studies have shown the prevalence of osteoporosis in men is higher than previously thought with approximately one in five men affected.
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