The global age-friendly community (AFC) movement champions policies, services, and infrastructure that foster active, healthy, and engaged aging across all aspects of civic life. The initiative aims to create environments where residents of all ages and abilities are respected as valued residents who contribute to and benefit from their community. While AFCs focus on multiple aspects of community life, age-friendly healthcare systems (AFHS) focus on the healthcare sector, including hospitals, acute care settings, and long-term care facilities. Long-term care facilities are key for AFCs to offer a broad range of living choices to allow community members living with chronic illness or disability to live safely and comfortably. The integration of care facilities with the community, a key goal of age-friendly long-term care, presents an opportunity for AFHS and AFCs to collaborate in enhancing the lived experience of long-term care residents, family care partners, and professional caregivers. This chapter considers the advantages of implementing age-friendly long-term care (AFLTC), describes how AFCs in the United States have partnered with long-term care, and explores how emerging technologies may expand opportunities for older residents to age in their preferred communities. The chapter concludes with recommendations for promoting integration between AFC and AFLTC.

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Extending the Age-Friendly Movement to Long-Term Care

  • Patricia Oh,
  • Mary Lou Ciolfi,
  • Kimberly Snow

摘要

The global age-friendly community (AFC) movement champions policies, services, and infrastructure that foster active, healthy, and engaged aging across all aspects of civic life. The initiative aims to create environments where residents of all ages and abilities are respected as valued residents who contribute to and benefit from their community. While AFCs focus on multiple aspects of community life, age-friendly healthcare systems (AFHS) focus on the healthcare sector, including hospitals, acute care settings, and long-term care facilities. Long-term care facilities are key for AFCs to offer a broad range of living choices to allow community members living with chronic illness or disability to live safely and comfortably. The integration of care facilities with the community, a key goal of age-friendly long-term care, presents an opportunity for AFHS and AFCs to collaborate in enhancing the lived experience of long-term care residents, family care partners, and professional caregivers. This chapter considers the advantages of implementing age-friendly long-term care (AFLTC), describes how AFCs in the United States have partnered with long-term care, and explores how emerging technologies may expand opportunities for older residents to age in their preferred communities. The chapter concludes with recommendations for promoting integration between AFC and AFLTC.