摘要:As fertility rates in advanced countries are plummeting to record low levels and life expectancies are increasing, the aging of their populations is becoming an inescapable fact. In Canada and the United States this problem is expected to intensify as their giant baby boom cohorts mature. The leading edge of these cohorts is expected to reach retirement age by about the year 2010. In addition, mobility levels of the elderly are steadily increasing, and cohort mobility analysis suggests that this trend will continue with a possible uneven spatial distribution of the elderly at the urban and provincial levels. It is therefore not surprising that many prominent scholars from a variety of disciplines have turned their attention to the general issue of population aging and its implications for policy analysis. The particular issue of elderly mobility has been neglected, but as mobility levels among the elderly have risen, so have the number of publications on the issue.