Chrysikou, E;
Rabnett, R;
Tziraki, C;
(2016)
Perspectives on the role and synergies of architecture, social and built environment in enabling active healthy ageing.
Journal of Aging Research
, 2016
, Article 6189349. 10.1155/2016/6189349.
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Abstract
Research has demonstrated active and healthy aging can be enhanced by enabling societal infrastructure, urban planning, architecture of healthcare facilities and personal accommodations throughout the life span. Yet, there is a paucity of research on how to bring together the various disciplines involved in a multi-domain synergistic collaboration to create new living environments for aging throughout the life span. This paper aims to explore the key domains of skills and knowledge that need to be considered in order to generate a conceptual prototype of an enabling educational process and environment where healthcare professionals, architects, planners and entrepreneurs may establish a shared theoretical and experiential knowledge base, vocabulary and implementation strategies, for the creation of next generation of living communities of active healthy adults, as well as for persons with disabilities and chronic disease conditions. We focus on synergistic, paradigmatic, simple, and practical issues that can be easily up-scaled through market mechanisms. This practical and physically concrete approach may also become linked with more elaborate and neuroscientific and technologically sophisticated interventions, to generate significant health benefits with relatively low costs. In summary, we examine the domains of knowledge that need to be included in establishing a learning model that focuses on the still very understudied impact of the benefits toward active and healthy aging, where architects, urban planners, clinicians, healthcare facility managers are educated toward a synergistic approach at the operational level.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Perspectives on the role and synergies of architecture, social and built environment in enabling active healthy ageing. |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1155/2016/6189349 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/6189349 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2016 Evangelia Chrysikou et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | dementia, active and healthy ageing, healthcare, architecture, built environment |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett Sch of Const and Proj Mgt UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett Sch of Const and Proj Mgt > Bartlett Real Estate Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1507953 |
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