Table Of ContentAgeing in Place
Ageing in Place
Design, Planning and Policy Response in the Western
Asia-Pacific
Edited by
Bruce Judd
Emeritus Professor, City Futures Research Centre, University of New South
Wales, Australia
Kenichi Tanoue
Professor, Department of Environmental Design, Faculty of Design, Kyushu
University, Japan
Edgar Liu
Senior Research Fellow, City Futures Research Centre, University of New
South Wales, Australia
Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA
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Contents
List of figures vii
List of tables ix
List of contributors x
1 Introduction: ageing in place in the Western Asia-Pacific 1
Bruce Judd, Edgar Liu and Kenichi Tanoue
PART I DESIGN
2 Housing typology and ageing in place in Australia 14
Bruce Judd
3 Ageing in place: Japan struggles toward its realization 34
Satoshi Kose
4 Community opposition to embedded facilities for the elderly in Chinese
urban communities 39
Zhang Song and Lei Jing-Wen
5 A field survey on the environmental characteristics of day care centres
for the demented elderly in Taiwan 48
Hwang Yao-Rong
6 Preferable home environment for the independent elderly to prevent
falls and maintain activities of daily living 60
Satoshi Muraki
PART II PLANNING
7 Ageing in sprawl: urban form and the challenges for age-friendly planning 70
Mariana Atkins
8 Ageing and depopulation in the mountains of Japan and Spain 84
Masakazu Tani, Tomo Inoue, Kazuo Asahiro, Naoyuki Oi and Kenichi Tanoue
9 The Livability App: older and vulnerable users’ perspectives on space
design, access provision and services 97
Catherine Bridge
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10 Planning for the milieu of older people in a post-disaster environment 111
Kenichi Tanoue
11 Older people’s use of outdoor spaces and factors that influence place
selection: a survey of old urban communities in Nanjing, China 126
Li Xiang-Feng, Zhang Meng, Li Xiao-Ming and Fan Hao
PART III POLICY
12 A review of ageing in place: policies and initiatives in Hong Kong since 2010 139
Ernest Wing-Tak Chui
13 Ageing in multigenerational households: the case of Australia 153
Edgar Liu
14 From vicious to virtuous: repositioning New Zealand’s housing to
sustain better later lives 165
Kay Saville-Smith
15 Ageing and the concept of fair housing in the Japanese context 180
Yasushi Sukenari
16 Conclusion: ageing in place, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspectives 194
Edgar Liu and Bruce Judd
Index 196
Figures
1.1 Percentage of people aged 65+ in selected Western Asia-Pacific
countries, 2020, 2050 and 2100, median projections 3
2.1 An Australian typology of housing options for older Australians 19
2.2 Dwelling type of older reference person by census year, 1971–2016, Sydney 22
2.3 Missing middle housing types 23
2.4 NSW missing middle typology 24
2.5 South East Queensland missing middle typology 26
2.6 Greater Adelaide Plan missing middle typology 27
4.1 Corresponding diagram of the area of each aged care facility and the
function types 41
4.2 Statistics of functions of aged care facilities 41
4.3 Relationship between the base conditions of different projects and the
proportion of final termination of projects due to residents’ opposition 42
5.1 Plan of day care centre D 52
5.2 Plan of day care centre E 55
6.1 Breakdown in daily energy expenditure (kcal/day) in housewives 63
7.1 Population ageing dynamic across Metropolitan Perth using the
Population Ageing Matrix 74
7.2 Spatial pattern of neighbourhood types across the metropolitan area
based on transport 77
8.1 Kuroki and the locations of study communities in Higashiku, Kyushu, Japan 88
8.2 Embún in Valle de Hecho, Aragon, Spain 89
9.1 Data export from Livability App as visualized in ArcGIS, enabling
visualization of data of disparate types or multiple audits 103
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9.2 Examples of how current smart device photos capture the lived
experience of the streetscape 104
9.3 The embedded structural relations in the ‘Accessible-Building’ model
within the Livability App makes its data reportable and actionable 106
9.4 Improved automated reporting direct to the app using the embedded
access audit model 107
11.1 Proportion of ageing population in each sub-district in Nanjing 128
11.2 Concentration of ageing population in each sub-district in Nanjing 129
11.3 The distribution of (a) urban parkland of a minimum 500m2; (b) all
the residential blocks in the downtown area in Nanjing; (c) residential
blocks with more than 15-minute walking distance to an urban parkland
of minimum 500m2 130
11.4 Case study locations 131
11.5 The elderly’s satisfaction with local urban parklands and the trip there 133
11.6a The street scene of the road from Xuanwumen 2 to the nearest parkland 134
11.6b The road from Xuanwumen 4 to the nearest parkland 135
14.1 Number of pedestrian injuries/deaths by age, 2016/17 169
14.2 The radical break from owner occupation based on cohort analysis 173
14.3 Maintenance condition of dwellings accommodating seniors aged 65 or over 174
14.4 Four research programmes for age-friendly built environments 176
Tables
5.1 Comparison of variety of spaces in day care centres 51
6.1 %MVC of the rectus femoris muscle during various movements in homes 64
6.2 Notes when elements of a barrier-free home are introduced for
independent elderly people 65
8.1 Age distribution in Higashiku and Embún 90
8.2 Distribution of household composition in Higashiku and Embún 91
8.3 Annual average number of visits to Higashiku and Embún by
out-migrated family members 93
10.1 Manuals for evacuation centres of ordinance-designated cities in Japan in 2018 118
10.2 Base evacuation centres in Kumamoto City 120
12.1 Living arrangements of older people (aged 65 or above) in Hong Kong
2006–16 141
13.1 Reasons for entering a multigenerational living arrangement 155
15.1 Attitudes towards government responsibility for social policies 182
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