An Anthropological Study of Changing Living Environments & Well-being of the Elderly in the US

在人口迅速老龄化和生育率下降的“超级老龄化社会”中，为老年人提供合适的生活环境对于他们在健康和行动能力下降的情况下维持独立生活并获得必要的护理至关重要。这项研究的重点是增长的新型护理设施，而不是更传统的疗养院在两个研究地点在美国，我一直在不断研究自20世纪80年代以来。以社区为基础的住宅设施和住宅护理公寓综合体的发展如何影响老年人的生活设计？本研究探讨了护理设施的多样化的纵向，社会和文化的变化的背景下，该地区和分析的变化和连续性的生活设计和老年人的福祉。

In a "Super-Aging Society" with a rapidly aging population and declining fertility, providing the elderly with a suitable living environment is critical for them to maintain independent lives and to receive necessary care as their health and mobility decline. This study focuses on the growth of new types of care facilities in lieu of more conventional nursing homes in two research sites in the US which I have been continuously studying since the 1980s. How does the development of community-based residential facilities and residential care apartment complexes affect the life design of the elderly?The study examines the diversification of care facilities in the context of longitudinal, social, and cultural changes of the areas and analyzes changes and continuity in the life-design and well-being of the elderly.