The golden years are not all golden in Bathurst, N.B., where 36 per cent of residents are 65 or older, more than in almost any other urban area in Canada.

Harsh winters, lack of public transit and soaring dementia rates are challenging realities for older people in the city, which has the eighth-highest concentration of older adults in the country, according to a new analysis by the Local News Data Hub at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU).