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In a social circumstance like now, most young adults engaged in school works or jobs in other places are unable to spend much time being with their aged parents or interacting with them until they come home, as a result the old lived in hometown have to take care of themselves. On the other hand, most young adults are busy with their works and have no plan for their retired life. Plus, they do not have any hobbies or interests in their leisure time. Once young adults go into retirement, they will stay home alone all day, have nothing to do, and expect to gain more concern from their families. However, in the prime of life, young adults can not get chances to understand their community environment and participate in the activities planned by community organizations. Therefore, the majority are lack of desire to take part in the community activities after retirement. Most activities the old take are personal even they go out. That means elders hardly join in community’s public activities but individual ones. Under this poor public life of community, the old will live with a monotonous, lonely and unfriended mentality. The prospect of aging in place will not be achieved. In this dilemma situation, it is expectable that form a public life in community for elders by community organizations who participate in environment renaissance of community. These organizations will plan and hold “software activity”like health examination, and offer places for activity held called“hardware space”to enrich the life of elders.
The results of this paper as follows: (一)the meaning and value of community life of the old It is anticipation that community organizations provide various activities to create a public life of community, satisfy healthy, leisurely and educational life demands, and enrich the life of the old. Moreover, public, social, group activities held for elders by community organizations will form a social network and become social support. It is also expectable that the elders will identify their community more and increase the percentage of social participation in order to have great stride at the goal of aging in place. (二)the role and function of community organizations The role of community organizations is to build and create life environment of community for elders through integrating social resources in every way, especially undertaking from the interior and exterior of community resources. In “software environment”, including activity, system and so on, it is to form community life and abundant connotation of life by providing group activities for elders. Furthermore, it is expected that social network can support the old to develop interpersonal relationship and congregate elder’s sense of place of community. In “hardware environment”, it is to develop spaces that have already existed as public fields in community for the old and set up a operation system for continuing to work. (三)the features of operation pattern of environment renaissance in community for elders It is found that community organizations that participate in operation system of environment renaissance for elders need to draw support from offering various activities in order to satisfy elders’ life demands and enrich their life. On the other hand, there need to have a sustainable and operational base as supportive platform for congregating the elder’s sense of place of community.
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