Is the Old Community Age Friendly after Micro-Regeneration? Evaluation from the Perspective of Active Aging
Publication: ICCREM 2023
ABSTRACT
With the increasingly pressing issue of China’s aging population, aging in place is set to become the predominant trend for seniors in the country. Consequently, community environments are becoming ever more crucial for elderly individuals. Currently, micro-regeneration efforts—including age-friendly renovations of older communities—focus primarily on objective conditions that ensure safety for seniors but lack measures aimed at enhancing their subjective levels of enthusiasm towards life. Therefore, it is of significant practical importance to conduct age-friendly renovations in old communities from the perspective of positive aging. This study establishes an age-friendly evaluation index system for old communities after micro-regeneration from the viewpoint of active aging, collects data through field questionnaires and interviews, and assigns weights to each index using the entropy weighting method. Based on this, by comparing and analyzing the index weights with the elderly’s satisfaction levels towards their living environment, we can identify areas that require further improvement. Based on the research findings, this paper proposes targeted recommendations for age-friendly refurbishment.
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ICCREM 2023
Pages: 126 - 134
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Published online: Nov 30, 2023
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Age factors
- Architectural engineering
- Building management
- Buildings
- Business management
- Data collection
- Engineering fundamentals
- Engineering mechanics
- Entropy methods
- Field tests
- High-rise buildings
- Methodology (by type)
- Practice and Profession
- Public administration
- Public health and safety
- Renovation
- Research methods (by type)
- Safety
- Structural engineering
- Structures (by type)
- Tests (by type)
- Thermodynamics
- Workplace diversity
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