Research Review on Evaluation Index for Age-friendly Community - a Case Study of Tianjin City

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10.2991/iceep-17.2017.18How to use a DOI?

Keywords

The elderly, Age-friendly community, Evaluation index

Abstract

China is facing social difficulties of severe aging trend that retirement community has become a promoting new type of aging life model beside "family support" and "institution care". Retirement community requires higher quality of environment design and facility layout, and demands improving evaluation index system. By field investigation on daily life of the elderly in100 communities from large cities with high portion of aged population in different areas of China, the distribution of the elderly activities in time and space can be analyzed and summarized, as well as the subjective requirements for functionality and safety of the community public space and facilities. With statistical analysis of survey data, the correlations between "age- friendliness" and environment design or facilities and services are explored, factors behind the subjective evaluation are found, and a set of relatively objective satisfaction evaluation index system for retirement community is established, as a guide for community reconstruction or new retirement community plan.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Weiyang Jia
AU  - Xiaorong Wang
PY  - 2017/06
DA  - 2017/06
TI  - Research Review on Evaluation Index for Age-friendly Community - a Case Study of Tianjin City
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 6th International Conference on Energy and Environmental Protection (ICEEP 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 108
EP  - 111
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iceep-17.2017.18
DO  - 10.2991/iceep-17.2017.18
ID  - Jia2017/06
ER  -