ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Aging and Public Health
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1649904
Aging-Friendly Design Strategies for Community Public Service Facilities Based on Context Analysis
Provisionally accepted
- Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin, China
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Against the backdrop of China's continuously aging population, adapting public service facilities in older urban communities for the elderly has become an important issue in the fields of urban and rural planning and community governance. Most existing studies focus on static functional optimization, ignoring the dynamic needs of the elderly in different situations.This study aims to reveal the dynamic characteristics of the behavioral needs of the elderly in multiple dimensions such as time, space and social interaction based on the context theory.Through field investigation and questionnaire analysis, combined with the Analytic Hierarchy Process, we quantify the demand weights of the elderly.And semantic judgment methods were introduced as supplementary verification.Based on this, we propose strategies such as behavior-oriented flexible facilities, time-responsive light environment regulation, "behavioral overlap area" design for space composite utilization, and data-driven lightweight iterative mechanisms. These provide approaches to aging-friendly renovation that take into account both accuracy and implementability for resource-constrained older communities, addressing the cognitive gap of situational dynamics in traditional designs.
Keywords: aging-friendly design1, elderly communities2, situational needs3, publicservice facilities4, micro-transformation strategy5
Received: 07 Jul 2025; Accepted: 16 Oct 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Li, 赵 and Zhang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Xu Zhang, zhangxu@tjut.edu.cn
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