Hanson David, Emlet Charles A
Pierce County Aging and Long Term Care, and the University of Washington, 1900 Commerce Street, Tacoma, WA 98402, USA.
Fam Community Health. 2006 Oct-Dec;29(4):266-78. doi: 10.1097/00003727-200610000-00005.
The graying of our population has created a need for elder-friendly communities, but this concept has not been consistently defined nor applied in community assessments. Studies of the topic have examined a range of phenomena--physical environments, religious communities, and access to services--in an attempt to develop a comprehensive model for community assessment. This article describes an elder-friendly community model developed by The AdvantAge Initiative, discusses how it was used to identify assets and areas for improvement in one Western Washington community and how this assessment is informing strategies to improve older adults' quality of life.
人口老龄化使得对老年友好型社区的需求应运而生，但这一概念在社区评估中尚未得到统一的定义和应用。关于该主题的研究考察了一系列现象——物理环境、宗教社区以及服务可及性等——以期构建一个全面的社区评估模型。本文介绍了由“优势年龄倡议组织”开发的老年友好型社区模型，探讨了该模型如何用于识别华盛顿州西部一个社区的资产和有待改进的领域，以及这一评估如何为提高老年人生活质量的策略提供信息。
