In Italy, old people represent 15% of the total population, according to the census of 1991.
Over the first decades of the third millennium, they will be one third of the inhabitants of the country. This phenomenon - occurring in all industrialized countries - will entail significative changes, not only in the economic and social organization, but also as regards the existing dwelling facilities: houses and cities will have to be made compatible with the new needs of an aging society.
The right to a civil and decent dweliing is one of the essential features of serene aging, in that it enables large groups of old people to keep a high degree of autonomy and independence, even in agedness, by improving their daily life and their family relationships, as well as avoiding to improperly resort to health and care facilities.

AeA
Intends to make every effort to promote the utilization of any technical, economic and social instrument which may help old people over the delicate phase of transition from self-sufficiency to the various degrees of dependence.
It is a non-profit national Association.

Including the following founders:
the national Associations of old people promoted by the pensioners' unions:

Auser, Association for Self-management of Services and Solidarity (200,000 members)

ADA, Association for the Rights of Old People (25,000 members)

the National Association of Dwellers' Co-operatives, ANCAb, (426,000 members);

the National Association of Services and Tourism Co-operatives (2,700 co-operatives, and 104,000 operators in the different sectors).