Health & Wellbeing Strategic Research Area, School of Health, Wellbeing & Social Care, The Open University, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire MK7 6HH, UK.
Department of Health and Public Management, College of Business & Public Management, University of La Verne, La Verne, CA 91750, USA.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Jan 19;18(2):837. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18020837.
This paper explores the intersection of the World Health Organization's (WHO) concepts of age-friendly communities and The Blue Zones checklists and how the potential of integrating the two frameworks for the development of a contemporary framework can address the current gaps in the literature as well as consider the inclusion of technology and environmental press. The commentary presented here sets out initial thoughts and explorations that have the potential to impact societies on a global scale and provides recommendations for a roadmap to consider new ways to think about the impact of health and wellbeing of older adults and their families. Additionally, this paper highlights both the strengths and the weaknesses of the aforementioned checklists and frameworks by examining the literature including the WHO age-friendly framework, the smart age-friendly ecosystem (SAfE) framework and the Blue Zones checklists. We argue that gaps exist in the current literature and take a critical approach as a way to be inclusive of technology and the environments in which older adults live. This commentary contributes to the fields of gerontology, gerontechnology, anthropology, and geography, because we are proposing a roadmap which sets out the need for future work which requires multi- and interdisciplinary research to be conducted for the respective checklists to evolve.
本文探讨了世界卫生组织（WHO）关于“友好社区”的概念与“蓝区清单”之间的交集，以及整合这两个框架来制定一个当代框架的潜力，以解决文献中的当前差距，并考虑纳入技术和环境压力因素。本文提出了初步的想法和探索，这些想法和探索有可能对全球范围内的社会产生影响，并为考虑新的思路以应对老年人及其家庭健康和幸福的影响提供了建议。此外，本文通过研究文献，包括世卫组织的“友好社区”框架、智能友好社区生态系统（SAfE）框架和“蓝区清单”，强调了上述清单和框架的优缺点。我们认为，当前文献中存在差距，并采取批判性的方法，将技术和老年人生活的环境纳入其中。本评论为老年学、老年技术学、人类学和地理学领域做出了贡献，因为我们提出了一个路线图，该路线图需要开展多学科和跨学科研究，以促进各自清单的发展。
