It examines how the concept of age-friendliness has grown into a framework that guides placemaking in a variety of settings and calls attention to contemporary criticism of the movement related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The chapter examines the intersectional nature of the social, ...
Age-friendliness, promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO), aims to enable and support individuals in different aspects of life for fostering life satisfaction and personal well-being as they age. We identified specific aspect(s) of age-friendliness associated with life satisfaction and examin...
A Web-based Public Participation GIS for assessing the age-friendliness of cities: A case study in Tehran, Iran Senior citizens are commonly regarded as the vulnerable class of society; requiring elderly-friendly urban environments as well as particular municipal ser... M Jelokhani-Niaraki,F Haj...
Pauli Gardner, Associate Professor, Brock University Welcome and thank you for your interest in our “Through Their Eyes” Project.Through Their Eyesis a community-campus partnership that gets undergraduate students who are studyingpublic healthout into the community to learn firsthand the strengths, ...
This study applied the concept of elder friendliness to leisure-oriented age-restricted communities and examined the social participation, satisfaction and support of residents in order to understand how such communities may facilitate or constrain social engagement.;Results showed a significant positive cor...
The questions posed in the focus groups were aimed at gaining a better understanding of the everyday experiences of older adults with respect to features that were age friendly, features that represented barriers to age friendliness, and suggestions for improvement in eight topic areas focused on ...
Age-friendly cities and communitiesSouth KoreaUnited StatesWHOA major task ahead for South Korea is to create age-friendly communities and environments that can support older residents' health, well-being, and quality of life. To that end, international partnerships have emerged to share information...
Many campuses lack age-friendliness, which deters older students from enrolling and creates barriers for these students. In an effort to better understand age-friendliness of Georgia State University (GSU) campuses, we conducted a survey in Fall 2019 (n=411; 39% response rate). The survey ...
Age Friendliness, Childhood, and Dementia: Toward Generationally Intelligent EnvironmentsActive agingChildhoodDementiaPublic spaceUrban designIntergenerationalIdentityThis chapter is a conceptual piece that examines the assumptions of the age-friendly cities and environments (AFE) phenomenon both in international ...
2014. Exploring the age-friendliness of purpose-built retirement communities: Evidence from England. Ageing and Society 34: 1601-29. [CrossRef]Liddle, J., Scharf, T., Bartlam, B., Bernard, M., & Sim, J. (2014). Exploring the age-friendliness of purpose-built retirement communities: ...