Department: GEOGRAFÍA

Center: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA

Area: Human Geography

Research group: GeoSpace SOCIEDAD, PAISAJE Y PATRIMONIO

Email: dsanchezg@geo.uned.es

Personal web: https://www.uned.es/universidad/docentes/geografia-histor...

Doctor by the Universidad de Granada with the thesis La situación de las personas mayores en la ciudad de Granada. Estudio geográfico 2004. Supervised by Dr. Diego Compán Vázquez.

Geographer, Master in Social Gerontology and Doctor in Geography from the University of Granada. Professor of the Department of Geography of the National University of Distance Education (UNED) and Full Scientist (on leave) of the Institute of Economics, Geography and Demography of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC). Previously, he has been a professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid, the Autonomous University of Nuevo León and the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas, a visiting professor at various Spanish and Mexican universities, and a researcher at the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID). His scientific production and lines of research are focused on the geography of aging-environmental gerontology, mainly, environment, health and quality of life of older people; aging and climate change; age-friendly cities and communities; active and healthy aging; disability and dependency; residential environments and aging; health and social services planning; and senior tourism.