Sophie Yarker is based in the Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing at The University of Manchester. She has an academic background in Sociology and Human Geography with a PhD in the latter from Newcastle University. From 2021 she has been working on the 'Population Ageing and Urbanisation' project funded by the Leverhulme Trust which is an interdisciplinary and cross-national comparative research project into ageing in place in cities. Sophie is also Deputy Director of the Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group.

• Chapter 1. Thinking infrastructurally about an ageing society Chapter 2. Understanding social infrastructure and social connections Chapter 3. Outside Venues and Public Spaces Chapter 4. Organised Activity, Public Services and Institutions Chapter 5. Commercial Venues Chapter 6. Everyday spaces of Intergenerational Encounter Chapter 7. Pressures on social infrastructure: Urban Development, Austerity and the Coronavirus Pandemic Chapter 8. An infrastructural approach to age-friendly recovery

"I recommend Sophie Yarker's Creating Spaces for an Ageing Society: The Role of Critical Social Infrastructure.It highlights the critical importance of social infrastructure - coffee shops, libraries, post offices, schools, local cinemas, luncheon clubs, parks, community and voluntary organisations, places of worship, senior centres - in promoting the development and maintenance of social connections as we grow older"