Ageing in place is een veelvuldig genoemd concept. Echter, het is de vraag wat dit volgens de wetenschappelijke literatuur inhoudt. In dit artikel wordt het concept ageing in place in kaart gebracht aan de hand van de vijf hoofdthema’s zoals die uit de literatuur zijn gedestilleerd. Een meer eenduidig begrip van ageing in place zal professionals, beleidsmakers, onderzoekers en sociale netwerken kunnen helpen de veelzijdigheid van het concept te zien en toe te passen.
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Ageing in place is een veelvuldig genoemd concept. Echter, het is de vraag wat dit volgens de wetenschappelijke literatuur inhoudt. In dit artikel wordt het concept ageing in place in kaart gebracht aan de hand van de vijf hoofdthema’s zoals die uit de literatuur zijn gedestilleerd. Een meer eenduidig begrip van ageing in place zal professionals, beleidsmakers, onderzoekers en sociale netwerken kunnen helpen de veelzijdigheid van het concept te zien en toe te passen.
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By 2050, 70% of the population will live in cities. The majority of the persons living in cities will be 60 plus years old. Ageing cities demands for cities environments to adapt to an ageing population. Modern cities though, don’t anticipate fast enough and in an adequate manner to face the challenges due to population-related transitions. Modifying and adapting the built environment with a focus on the aged population could help to support older people facing functional and cognitive decline.
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Due to societal developments, like the introduction of the ‘civil society’, policy stimulating longer living at home and the separation of housing and care, the housing situation of older citizens is a relevant and pressing issue for housing-, governance- and care organizations. The current situation of living with care already benefits from technological advancement. The wide application of technology especially in care homes brings the emergence of a new source of information that becomes invaluable in order to understand how the smart urban environment affects the health of older people. The goal of this proposal is to develop an approach for designing smart neighborhoods, in order to assist and engage older adults living there. This approach will be applied to a neighborhood in Aalst-Waalre which will be developed into a living lab. The research will involve: (1) Insight into social-spatial factors underlying a smart neighborhood; (2) Identifying governance and organizational context; (3) Identifying needs and preferences of the (future) inhabitant; (4) Matching needs & preferences to potential socio-techno-spatial solutions. A mixed methods approach fusing quantitative and qualitative methods towards understanding the impacts of smart environment will be investigated. After 12 months, employing several concepts of urban computing, such as pattern recognition and predictive modelling , using the focus groups from the different organizations as well as primary end-users, and exploring how physiological data can be embedded in data-driven strategies for the enhancement of active ageing in this neighborhood will result in design solutions and strategies for a more care-friendly neighborhood.
Developing and realizing an innovative concept for the Active Aging campus in two years, where students, teachers, companies, residents of surrounding Campus neighborhoods will be invited to do exercise, sports, play, meet and participate. This includes, on the one hand, providing input with regard to a mobility-friendly design from an infrastructural perspective and, on the other hand, organizing activities that contribute to Healthy Aeging of the Zernike site and the city of Groningen. It is not only about having an Active Aging campus with an iconic image, but also about the process. In the process of realization, students, teachers, researchers, companies and residents from surrounding districts will be explicitly involved. This includes hardware (physical environment / infrastructure), software (social environment) and orgware (interaction between the two).
