Publication
auri Research Brief
Legislative Improvement Measures system for Age-friendly Urban Environments
- No.49
- 2019.09.17
- Hit 1041
- Ko, Youngho Associate Research Fellow
The current response to the aging society in Korea mainly focuses on healthcare and welfare policies; yet, the World Health Organization (WHO) has identified three elements of age-friendly physical environments (external spaces and facilities, housing, transportation) and five elements of age-friendly non-physical environments (leisure and social activities, use of human resources, communication and information, medical and local care) in its publication of “Global Age-Friendly Cities: A Guide” (WHO, 2007). The publication explained that the physical and mental well-being of the elderly and the institution of an age-friendly society are made possible when the hardware (physical environment) and software (nonphysical environment) are both readily available to their aging residents.