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. 2020 Jun 16;17(12):4304.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph17124304.

Associations of City-Level Active Aging and Age Friendliness with Well-Being among Older Adults Aged 55 and Over in Taiwan

Hui-Chuan Hsu  1
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Associations of City-Level Active Aging and Age Friendliness with Well-Being among Older Adults Aged 55 and Over in Taiwan

Hui-Chuan Hsu. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

This study aims to identify the typology of city-level active aging and age-friendliness across cities in Taiwan and examine their effects on well-being in terms of life satisfaction (aged 55 and over) and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) (aged 65 and over) among older adults. The data were from the 2017 Taiwan Senior Citizen Condition Survey. Available indicators of Taiwan's Active Aging Index and city age-friendliness were selected, and mixed linear models were analyzed. Active aging cities were classified into four categories-content, developed, participatory, and pioneer-and age-friendly cities into insecure, infrastructural, and tranquil. Life satisfaction was rated higher in content and participatory cities compared with the pioneer city, and related to individuals' active aging status. Physical HRQoL was rated higher in infrastructural and tranquil cities, compared with insecure cities. City types of active aging and age-friendliness have different effects on well-being, but the effects are weaker than those of individuals' characteristics.

Keywords: active aging; age-friendly city; health-related quality of life (HRQoL); life satisfaction; older adults; well-being.

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Conflict of interest statement

The author declares no conflict of interest. The funders had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to publish the results.

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Figure 1
Map of active aging city clusters in Taiwan (Note: Green: Participatory, Light-blue: Developed; Red: Content; Yellow: Pioneer).
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Figure 2
Map of age friendly city clusters in Taiwan (Note: Blue: Infrastructural, Pink: Tranquil, Orange: Insecure).
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Figure 3
Map of active aging and age friendly city clusters in Taiwan. Note: The city clusters color (city numbers): Developed and Infrastructural: red (1); Developed and Tranquil: orange (1); Content and Tranquil: yellow (5); Content and Infrastructural: light green (3); Participatory and Infrastructural; dark green (1); Participatory and Tranquil: light blue (6); Content and Insecure: dark purple (1); Participatory and Insecure: blue (5); Pioneer and Insecure: pink purple (1).
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