ABSTRACT

Concern for the future of town centres and their retail cores, the ‘high street’, is not new. Responses to this have often been somewhat one dimensional, focusing on their role as places of consumption, employment, leisure and heritage. We consider the potential multiple roles of older people in helping revive and rejuvenate town centres given the centrality of place for healthy supportive living, community and social participation and ‘ageing in place’. Taking an environmental gerontology perspective, we ask whether the WHO age friendly cities/communities’ framework should be considered further in approaches to reviving town centres in a post-Covid-19 world.

摘要

对城镇中心及其零售核心，即“高街”的未来的关注并不新鲜。对这一问题的反应通常只是一维的，着眼于它们作为消费，就业，休闲和遗产场所的作用。考虑到健康的支持性生活，社区和社会参与以及“适龄到位”的中心地位，我们认为老年人在帮助复兴和复兴城镇中心方面可能发挥多种作用。从环境老年医学的角度出发，我们询问在复兴Covid-19后世界中的城镇中心的方法中，是否应进一步考虑WHO老年友好城市/社区的框架。