Active Ageing Environments

“一个像样的家、一份工作和朋友对健康来说比国民健康保险制度更重要。”(英国公共卫生首席执行官邓肯·塞尔比)体力活动已经脱离了我们的生活；机械化、自动化和数字化让我们久坐不动，呆在室内，绑在屏幕上。缺乏体育活动对所有年龄段和社会各阶层的健康、心理健康和生活质量都有不利影响。随着人口老龄化，缺乏体育活动、运动和户外活动的累积影响严重损害了平均健康预期寿命。中年人和老年人是人口中最不活跃的部分。如果人们在正确的时间拥有适当的信息、机会和工具，他们就会有更高水平的活跃，往往会体验到更好的健康，并从事更健康的行为。建筑环境影响我们的健康和福祉，因为它提供了在建筑物之间和周围的空间进行身体活动的机会。好的设计通过获得绿地、步行和自行车连接以及与社区设施的连接来创造体育活动机会。受利润驱动的开发商将解决全国住房短缺问题，以相同的模式交付数千套住房。我们打算表明，在更好的设计上的投资回报，将增加他们的利润，同时也改善健康。通过创造更好、更理想的居住场所，土地和房屋的价值就会增加。通过在设计阶段嵌入身体活动的机会，创造活跃的老龄化环境，社区成长和发展得更健康。

"A decent home, a job and friends are more important to good health than the NHS." (Duncan Selbie, Chief Executive, Public Health England)Physical activity has been engineered out of our lives; mechanization, automation and digitization have left us sedentary, indoors and tied to our screens. Physical inactivity adversely effects health, mental wellbeing and quality of life at all ages and across all sectors of society. As our population ages the cumulative effects of this lack of physical activity, movement and connection with the outdoors is severely detrimental to average healthy life expectancy. Midlife and older adults represent the most inactive portion of the population. If people have appropriate information, opportunities and tools at the right time they have higher levels of activation, tend to experience better health and engage in healthier behaviours. The built environment impacts our health and wellbeing as it affords opportunities to be physically active in the spaces between and around buildings. Good design creates physical activity opportunities through access to green spaces, walking and cycling connections and links to community facilities.The national housing shortage will be met by developers driven by profit, delivering thousands of houses in the same mould. We intend to show that the return on investment in better design, will increase their profits while also improving health. By creating better, more desirable places to live, the value of land and houses increases. By embedding opportunities for physical activity at the design stage, creating active aging environments, communities grow and grow healthier.