Community-Based Projects in Nigeria

Muhammad, Zayyanu

doi:10.21834/ajqol.v1i4.13

“…Ageing-in-place has shown to have a positive correlation with health and well-being and sense of satisfaction and contentedness (Renaut, Ogg, Petite, & Chamahian, 2015;Stones & Gullifer, 2016;Dahlan & SultanIbrahim, 2017;Yousefi, Hosseini, Yazdanfar, & Norouzian-Maleki, 2017). Remaining in their own homes and communities helps in the maintenance of social connection and support from family and friends (Lawler, 2001;Muhammad, 2016;Zakariya, Harun, & Mansor, 2016). Additionally, ageing-in-place is also an option to avoid the expensive choice of institutional care and is therefore favoured by policy makers, health providers, and by many older people themselves (World Health Organization, 2007).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Designing Residential Buildings for Older People in China to Promote Ageing-in-place

Gadakari

¹

,

Wang

²

,

Hadjri

³

et al. 2018

AjQoL

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Ageing-in-place is the most common ageing model in China. Therefore, design of age-friendly residential buildings and neighbourhoods becomes an important factor leading to improvement in older people’s health and quality of life. This paper presents the current situation of the ageing population in Chinese cities by qualitatively analysing existing literature, design standards and conducting stakeholder interviews to understand older people’s housing choices and aims to identify physical design factors, challenges and potentials of residential design for older people. The findings will fill the knowledge gap of age-friendly residential models in China and guide better design to meet older people’s needs.Keywords: ageing; age-friendly design; residential building; spatial design.eISSN 2398-4279 © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ajqol.v3i13.158

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“…Older people wanting to remain in their homes and communities for as long as possible helps in the maintenance of social connection and support from family and friends (Lawler, 2001;Muhammad, 2016;Zakariya, Harun, & Mansor, 2016). Additionally, ageing-in-place is also an option to avoid the expensive choice of institutional care and is therefore favoured by policy makers, health providers, and by many older people themselves (World Health Organization, 2007).…”

Section: Ageing-in-placementioning

confidence: 99%

Promoting Ageing-in-Place: Design of residential buildings for older people in China

Gadakari

¹

,

Wang

²

,

Hadjri

³

et al. 2017

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Ageing-in-place is the most common ageing model in China. Therefore, design of age-friendly residential buildings and neighbourhoods becomes an important factor leading to improvement in older people's health and quality of life. This paper presents the current situation of the ageing population in Chinese cities by qualitatively analysing existing literature, design standards and conducting stakeholder interviews to understand older people's housing choices as well as establish physical design factors, challenges and potentials of residential design for older people. The findings will fill the knowledge gap of age-friendly residential models in China and guide better design to meet older people's needs.Keywords: ageing; age-friendly design; residential building; spatial design Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v2i6.965 eISSN: 2398-4287© 2017. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer-review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of IntroductionThe global population is undergoing a marked demographic shift, where older people will soon outnumber youth populations owing to increase in life expectancy, falling fertility rates, and lifestyle changes. The number of people aged 65 or older is projected to grow from an estimated 524 million in 2010 to nearly 1.5 billion in 2050, with most of the increase in developing countries. (World Health Organisation, 2011) In China, people aged 60 and over are defined as 'older people' and this population is rising rapidly due to an overall increase of life expectancy of 29.8 years since the 1960s to 2010 (OECD, 2014). The number of Chinese people over the age of 65 are likely to grow from 123 million in 2011, 200 million in 2026, 300 million in 2038, to 330 million by 2050, with around 100 million over the age of 80 (World Health Organisation, 2011; United Nations, 2013; OECD, 2014). According to China's Ministry of Civil Affairs, the number of people aged 60 and over is currently 222 million, which comprises of 16.1% of the total population and has already surpassed the above prediction (CIIC China, 2016).In tandem with demographic change, China is also undergoing massive social and economic transitions. The country is witnessing key changes in family structures, urbanisation, educational advancement, technological development and increasing participation of women in the labour market. These shifts are challenging the traditional family-based care arrangement for older people. In the future, for every younger couple there will be four or more older family members who require daily care and assistance. (Feng, 2014) This will have direct consequences in terms of access to s...

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