Dean for Faculty of Architecture, KMITL

President of Council of Deans of Architecture

School of Thailand (CDAST)

Director of Inclusive Designed Environment and

Research –IDEaR Unit

Asst.Prof.Dr. Antika Sawadsri

Key factors: urbanization and industrial city impact on QoL of older population

Shifting Aging Patterns

―The tradition of relying on family support in old age is

eroding in a number of countries. In Korea, fewer than

30 percent of older people live with their children. In

China, 43 percent of those ages 65 to 70 live with their

children, down from two-thirds in the early 1980s. Many

elderly people are left in rural areas with young children

to care for, as their adult children move to urban areas

in search of better paid jobs.‖

Source: http://www.worldbank.org/content/dam/infographics/780xany/2015/dec/EAP-Aging-infographic-keyframe.jpg

―Older family members rather rely on their younger generation‖

Why?

Key factors: urbanization and industrial city impact on QoL of older population

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Travel? or Adventure?

Entrapped at home Move to institution or…to nursing home/village

Inaccessible (public) facilities

Hundred of solutions to age at home

Ageing-in-place:

‘Enable older people to remain living in familiar physical

and social environments’

Ernest Chui

Ageing International

September 2008, Volume 32, Issue 3, pp 167–182

Ageing in Place in Hong Kong—Challenges and Opportunities in a Capitalist Chinese City

A link between effective infrastructure and ‗Aging-in-place‘

Source: https://www.homeadvisor.com/r/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Aging-in-place-feature-e1450115497961.jpg

U s e r - f r i e n d l y t e c h n o l o g y

U s e r - f r i e n d l y t e c h n o l o g y

Source: U.S. Green Building Council

Natural Resources Defense Council

The Congress for the New Urbanism

Accessible public facilities

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Source: U.S. Green Building Council

Natural Resources Defense Council, The Congress for the New Urbanism

Accessibility of the city as an asset

Social return of investment

Economic return of investment

Social and economic return of investment

Active ageing

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