School of Social Work, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick.
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, University of South Florida, Sarasota-Manatee.
Gerontologist. 2019 Sep 17;59(5):803-810. doi: 10.1093/geront/gny089.
We introduce "community gerontology" as an area of research, policy, and practice that aims to advance understanding of communities as fundamental contexts for aging and its diversity, and to leverage this understanding for change. We present a foundational framework for community gerontology in three parts. First, we discuss the mesolevel as the unifying construct for community gerontology. Second, we describe community gerontology's focus on pathways of mutual influence between the mesolevel with more micro and macro contexts over time. Third, we put forth community gerontology's emphasis on gerontologists' participation in community change processes to facilitate more optimal experiences of aging among diverse population subgroups. We conclude by describing the integrative nature of community gerontology and the ways that this framework can advance research on particular substantive areas, as well as gerontology as a whole.
我们引入“社区老年学”作为一个研究、政策和实践领域，旨在增进对社区作为老龄化及其多样性的基本背景的理解，并利用这种理解来推动变革。我们提出了社区老年学的基础框架，分为三个部分。首先，我们讨论中观层面作为社区老年学的统一结构。其次，我们描述了社区老年学的重点，即中观层面与微观和宏观层面之间相互影响的途径，随着时间的推移。第三，我们提出了社区老年学对老年学家参与社区变革过程的强调，以促进不同人群亚组更优化的老龄化体验。最后，我们描述了社区老年学的综合性以及该框架如何能够推进特定实质性领域的研究，以及整个老年学的研究。
