And Ii. International City, Environment And Health Congress
The Old Friend R.
Disiplin:
Social Anthropology
Konu:
Social Anthropology
The rapid increase in the elderly population in other countries and in our country brings the elderly population with problems such as loneliness, poverty, disability and chronic diseases.However, older individuals are increasing in the search for a life that is suitable for human dignity.Age progress is physical, social, economic, psychological, etc.It brings many changes with it.These changes also cause older individuals to be able to maintain their daily lives and their social roles to vary from young people.Therefore, the elderly individuals are in loneliness because they have difficulty adapting to the change of their surroundings.This study aims to raise awareness of the importance of building old-friendly cities in ensuring healthy aging for older individuals.Google scholar, pubmed, wiley online library, sagejournalsonline are articles published in English until April 2018.When there is not sufficient information in the title and summary of the studies, the necessary data is assessed by full text.In order to ensure that this review process is consistent, a simple search algorithm has been selected to extract the studies clearly referring to the effects of urbanization on the health of the elderly.i. Published in English, with the keywords "old", "frendly" and "city" and through the study of the studies that can be reached to the full text.In recent years, it is known that the majority of people in Turkey live in cities.For example, in Turkey, according to the 2016 data, 92.3% of the visual population lives in the province and district centers, and 7.7% in the towns and villages.In the same year, records have indicated that the population aged 65 years and older in our country increased to 8.3%.“OldFriendly City is a program adopted by the World Health Organization in 2006 and is an international effort aimed at ensuring active and healthy aging in communities.There are various practices in the world.For example, Manchester City has been working to improve the quality of life of older people since 2003.Some studies in old-friendly New York City include 3,000 new old-friendly bus stations, 1,000 new old-friendly banks, 14 public old-friendly swimming pools.London joined the old-friendly cities network in 2010 and is the first city to join the network from Canada.Making cities old-friendly is one of the most effective policy approaches to respond to the ageing of the population.The old-friendly city represents an inclusive and accessible environment that supports active aging.Elderly people use the places within the city for social-cultural activities and for compulsory reasons such as passive recreational activities, shopping, banking, such as walking, clean air, travel.In order to ensure and maintain healthy aging, the design of all living areas should be carried out taking into account the needs of the elderly and in this sense the urban design is carried out, while the outer spaces and structures should be designed according to the elderly individuals.As a result, the necessary steps must be fulfilled in order to create old-friendly cities.This requires sufficient infrastructure work, the budget, human power, the mastery of the subject, the participation of the elderly in the social life.Keywords: old, old friend, old friend
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