Comprehensive Research for the Sustainability Elderly People's Lifestyle

通过对日本典型工业化城市福山的问卷调查和访谈，得出以下结论：通过对这些模式的比较，我们还探讨了南京市、中国和宾夕法尼亚州莱维顿市老年人的生活方式。1分析老年人的生活方式有三个关键词：“健康”、“工作”和“交流”。2“工作”和“交流”是维持老年人健康生活的基本因素。3福山老年人的生活方式根据他们的栖息地模式有三种：乡村模式、市中心模式和郊区新城模式。4农村模式的老年人过去最健康的生活方式是在他们的田野里工作和与邻里之间有良好的交流。相反，住在郊区新城的人过去常常觉得日常生活不舒服。…更多。而市中心的模式大多是健康的，因为他们可以很容易地与朋友联系，通过良好的公共通道购买生活必需品。5郊区新城的老年人，特别是老年妇女，大多因为没有进入市中心或其他社区的通道而感到不快乐和孤独，其中只有20%或更少的妇女拥有驾照。6在南京，中国，城市家庭生活方式正在增加，将家务工作私有化，就像20世纪70年代日本人在20世纪70年代开始行动的时候一样，她们经历了与日本人相同的问题。相反，美国老年人希望从事一些工作，如兼职工作或志愿者活动，为他们的生产性年龄。7我们认为，这取决于老年人的‘工作’和‘沟通’，他们能否享受健康和人性化的生活。8我们确认，‘生产性老龄化’和‘社会化的生活’(包括容易获得生活必需品)是关键，‘社区企业’的概念将非常有助于实现他们自我维持的生活。较少

We get the following conclusions on the patterns of the life style of aged people through a questionnaire and an interview in Fukuyama, one of the typical local industrialized cities in Japan. Comparing with those patterns, we also discuss the life style of aged people in Nanjing, China, and Levittown, PA. USA.The points are the following :1 There are three key words to analyze the life style of aged people : ‘health', ‘work', and ‘communication'.2 ‘Work' and ‘Communication' are the fundamental factors for sustaining healthy life of aged people.3 There are three life styles of aged people in Fukuyama depending on their habitat patterns : the rural pattern, the inner city pattern and the suburban new town pattern.4 The aged people of the rural pattern used to have the most healthful life style, for working in their fields and having good communications between their neighborhood. On the contrary, the people who live in the suburban new town used to feel to be indisposed in everyday life … More . And the inner city pattern is mostly healthful, because they can easily contact with their friends and have good shopping for their necessaries of life by good public access.5 The aged people in the suburban new town, especially the aged women, are mostly unhappy and desolate by lack of their access to downtown or other community except ‘my car' and only 20% or less of those women have driver's license.6 In Nanjing, China, urban family life style is getting increase to privatize house works, just like Japanese ‘my home' style in the 1970s' go-go age, and they have experienced the same problems as Japanese people at that period. On the contrary, aged people in US want to do some kind of works, such as part-time work or volunteer activities, for their productive aging.7 We consider that it depends on the ‘work' and ‘communication' of aged people whether they can enjoy a healthy and human life. That is a reason why we shift the paradigm from ‘successful aging' to ‘productive aging'.8 We confirm that ‘the productive aging' and ‘the socialization of living' (including easy access to the necessaries of life) are key stones and the concept of ‘the community business' would be very useful to realize their self sustained life. Less