For the development of modern research on aging in regions, in the countryside and cities, to support policies and programs, as well as for the practical adaptation of daily operations, the spatial orientation with knowledge of where and how aging occurs in respective areas, how decision-makers and inhabitants experience it in different places and how it affects our society, local economy, and communities, has become of decisive importance. 

This book focuses on a newly defined interdisciplinary field of study—geographical gerontology—here proposed to be shortened as GEO-Gerontology that addresses these issues. In the introduction, the book examines the range and depth of geographical perspectives in gerontology, gives the concepts and approaches used for the study of aging, age, and the older population in relation to space, and then focuses in more detail on one of the Slovenian regions at the NUTS 3 level, in this case mainly the Pomurska region, its municipalities, and Local Action Groups. Finally, the current structure of the elderly population and the dispersion of older adults who do not have younger relatives in their households in space is given, which requires additional funds to cover the costs of overcoming distances in the region.