Active Ageing and Public Space: The Creative City 3.0

Bronzini, Fabio; Barbini, Norma; Marinelli, Giovanni; Pantaloni, Monica; Giordano, Ersilia

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“…The focus of such solutions is to support the creation and implementation of healthy, smart, and inclusive environments for older adults that enable them to actively participate in society while enjoying a healthy quality of life ( 23 ). Such solutions, which mainly include ICT-integrated smart homes ( 14 ), ambient assisted living ( 24 ) and home automation ( 25 ), are designed to facilitate active ageing and ageing-in-place through technological assistance. By creating new solutions and implementing best practise, the city with its aim of “go smarter” can optimise the potential of using the various capitals in cities and citizens, such as institutional, social and human capitals, and traditional (transport) and modern communication infrastructure (ICTs) ( 26 ), as well as integrating resources for supporting the participation of older people ( 23 ).…”

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Experiences of Older People and Social Inclusion in Relation to Smart “Age-Friendly” Cities: A Case Study of Chongqing, China

Woolrych

2021

Front. Public Health

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Whilst cities can be sites of creativity, innovation, and change, they can also reproduce the conditions for the exclusion of vulnerable groups. Older people report experiencing specific barriers to accessing the city and are often excluded from the resources for ageing well. The smart city agenda has attempted to bring about technological change whilst also delivering improved quality of life for urban citizens. Smart technologies are a key element of the smart city and are viewed as having the potential to support the independence, autonomy, and well-being of older people. Yet, there has been little research exploring the role of the smart city in supporting the social inclusion of older people, nor any attempt to link this with key policy drivers on ageing e.g., age-friendly cities and communities. In response, the aim of this paper is to explore the experiences of older people living in a smart city in China and discuss how the smart city and age-friendly can be brought together to support positive social outcomes for older people. The paper presents qualitative findings from a multi-methods approach, including semi-structured interviews, walking interviews and focus groups. A total of 64 older people participated in the research across three diverse neighbourhoods in the case study smart city of Chongqing, China. The findings identified opportunities in the development and deployment of smart cities, including the potential for improved health and well-being and social connectedness. Yet in delivering on these benefits, a number of challenges were identified which may widen social inequalities, including inequities in access, issues of safety and security, and exclusion from the co-production of smart city policy and practise. The paper discusses the implications of the findings for future smart city policy and practise, specifically in delivering interventions that support older adults' social inclusion and the delivery of age-friendly cities and communities.

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Experiences of Older People and Social Inclusion in Relation to Smart “Age-Friendly” Cities: A Case Study of Chongqing, China

Woolrych

2021

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“…This approach to the smart cities is also related to the notion of "creative class" that is category of knowledge workers, intellectuals, artists, and other free professions that play major role in restructuring cities and regions in relation to the needs of cultural and creative industries (e.g., science, engineering, research, arts, design, and media) [28]. Thus, the SAFCC are already described as spaces that foster the "creative ageing," that is, engaging older adults in creative activity, which aims to shift from highlighting their problems to underline their potential [9,41].…”

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Smart, age-friendly cities and communities: the emergence of socio-technological solutions in the Central and Eastern Europe

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Tomczyk²

2016

Active and Assisted Living: Technologies and Applications

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The conclusion will underline the need for participatory formulation of AAL technologies and applications with older adults and the need for advocacy to promote the AAL in association with the concept of the "silver economy." 19.2 The Smart Cities and Communities in the Context of the Population Ageing: An Overview of the Concept At the beginning of the 21st century, the discourse on the revitalization of urban spaces is particularly important. Local administration, especially in urban areas, must meet the growing expectations of different groups of people (stakeholders) both as citizens and, among others, consumers, workers, entrepreneurs, investors, and members of families and communities. Furthermore, in the context of demographic change, urban renewal must include, among others, issues such as the population ageing, increasing the life expectancy, increasing pressure on the needs of people with disabilities regarding the elimination of architectural barriers and accessibility of public infrastructure, depopulation of some districts as well as unfavourable changes in birth rates, fertility, and mortality. According to the United Nations (UN), particularly noticeable is the process of "double ageing" of the population that is the rapid increase of old-old (75-84 years) and oldest-old (over 85 years) age groups in the population. The population of people over 80 years old is expected to grow worldwide from 120 million in 2013 to 392 million in 2050 [73]. In urban areas, these changes will be reflected primarily in the increased demand for care services, health services, and social services [17, 53, 54]. However, it should be noted that the population ageing not only significantly reduces the potential for the informal care provided mainly by families. This process also leads to the emergence of the "sandwich generation," that is defined mostly as people in middle age (40-59 years), who must reconcile their caring responsibilities towards their children and parents with maintaining a professional activity [1, 50]. The population ageing entails many consequences (social, economic, political, and cultural), but it is also a challenge to create new solutions so that societies can function better in the future. Attention, in particular, should be paid to older generations because the rate of population growth in the retirement age in CEE according to demographic projections will vigorously increase [85]. Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia (the countries of the Visegrad Group) in particular in recent years started to feel the effects of demographic changes through phenomena such as depopulation of large cities. This process is occurring mainly in centres, which concentrated industry during the period of real socialism, e.g., in Poland in the years 1995-2013 only six cities were characterised by an increase of population: Kraków, Olsztyn, Rzeszów, Warsaw, Zielona Góra, and Białystok [65]. However, the progressive urbanisation in CEE enforces implementation of new socio-technical solutions in the local ur...

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Active Ageing and Public Space: The Creative City 3.0

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Experiences of Older People and Social Inclusion in Relation to Smart “Age-Friendly” Cities: A Case Study of Chongqing, China

Experiences of Older People and Social Inclusion in Relation to Smart “Age-Friendly” Cities: A Case Study of Chongqing, China

Smart, age-friendly cities and communities: the emergence of socio-technological solutions in the Central and Eastern Europe

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