Steels, S (2015) Key characteristics of age-friendly cities and communities: a review. Cities. ISSN 0264-2751
Abstract
The creation of age-friendly environments worldwide has been promoted by the World Health Organization as a strategy to address the challenges posed by the converging trends of urbanisation and population. This has resulted in an increased discussed of strategies and initiatives which ensure policies, services and products meet the needs of older persons. This article aims to examine the current evidence of approaches and interventions used to create age-friendly cities and communities identified in recent research and practice. This review identified clear characteristics that contribute towards an age-friendly city. Multi-stakeholder collaborations, government commitment, inclusion of older persons and policies that tackled both the physical and social environments were key factors that contributed towards approaches and interventions used to create age-friendly cities and communities. The characteristics of age-friendly initiatives identified provide a promising basis for the development of ageing policy and planning globally to make cities more supportive of older people
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015, Elsevier. This is an author produced version of a paper accepted for publication in Cities. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Ageing policy; Age-friendly city; Planning; Urban; Community |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 05 Jun 2015 12:46 |
Last Modified: | 19 Mar 2018 01:38 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2015.02.004 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.cities.2015.02.004 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:84701 |