Aging, Living Environment, and Sustainability: What Should be Taken into Account?

Gražulevičiūtė–Vileniškė, Indrė; Seduikyte, Lina; Gomes, A.; Mendes, Ana; Borodiņecs, Anatolijs; Bužinskaitė, Deimantė

doi:10.3390/su12051853

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“…Also, sustainability aspects and their peculiarities are essential to an aging society in the design and management of their living environment. They highlight the critical issues of sustainable aging and offer the possibility to complement existing design concepts with a biophilic design concept to strengthen their social, psychological, and environmental aspects [57,58].…”

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Research Challenges and Advancements in the field of Sustainable Energy Technologies in the Built Environment

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Inevitably, the 21st century has initiated a series of developments in the construction industry, leading to its digitalization and resulting in a series of innovative approaches and practices. At the same time, the construction industry, being one of the main global environment polluters, should fulfil well-established, as well as novel, sustainability requirements in order to evolve in harmony with the rising concerns on the availability of natural resources. This overview study aims to present the main developments, research, and scientific challenges in the field of sustainable construction, emphasizing the field of energy. The study aims to present a state-of-the-art scientific discussion on the sustainable built environment topic by analyzing cutting edge topics in the fields of building elements and whole building energy assessment, of indoor air quality and low carbon buildings, as well as on sustainable energy systems and smart buildings. The study also presents the state-of-the-art in existing tools which are adopted for the assessment of the sustainable built environment, including the use of digital tools and building information modelling for the energy assessment of the built environment, as well as the application of Life Cycle Assessment on building-related processes. Cross cutting issues related to the analysis of the building sector in the Industry 4.0 era, such as sustainability management topics and environmental geomatics are also discussed. The study concludes in those fields which will be of interest of the scientific community in the following years, towards achieving the goals of the sustainable development of the building sector.

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“…The population in the developed and emerging economies would rise significantly in the coming decades, as projected by WHO, predicting a significant rise in the population dependency ratio. Therefore, a sustainable atmosphere must be established for the ageing population structure and the possibilities of complementing principles explored to enhance sustainable development aspects [ 11 ].…”

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“…Qian, Ho [ 18 ] lamented the lack of research on the relationship between age structuring and sustainable development. Grazuleviciute-Vileniske, Seduikyte [ 11 ] posited that at present, individual welfare becomes sustainable development and a human- centered approach; therefore, population and associated issues such as health expenditure per capita must be viewed from the perspective of sustainable development, based on social, economic, and environmental sustainability.…”

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Nexus of regional integration, socioeconomic determinants and sustainable development in belt and road initiative countries

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This study evaluates the nexus of regional integration, socioeconomic determinants and sustainable development (SD) by investigating the effect of health, humans and age structure on sustainable development, with the regional integration (RI) as the moderating variable. Socioeconomic determinants have an important role in sustainable development, while regional integration has fueled up the development process. The sample is based on 64 Belt and Road (BRI) countries from 2003–2018. Pair-wise correlation results indicate that human development, health expenditure and age structure showed a positive relationship with sustainable development. Two-step System-GMM direct effect outcomes are mixed and reveal that human development, health expenditure per capita, age structure, governance index and population size have a positive impact on sustainable development. On the other hand, e-government, government size, and globalization showed negative effects on SD. Apart from that, the moderating channel of regional integration (RI), interaction term with human development and health expenditure, showed a significant and positive impact on sustainable development. However, age structure interaction with regional integration showed a negative impact on SD. Other socio-economic factors, i.e., governance index and population contribute positively towards SD. It can be concluded that the dynamic nature of sustainable development is positive and the net present value is increasing. Therefore, BRI countries are on the sustainable path from 2003–2018, as suggested by economic and social welfare theory. The integration of BRI can be labeled as an entrance to successful sustainable development. However, weak e-government systems, globalization and government resources need to be utilized amicably in Belt and Road countries. Driscoll-Kraay standard-errors regression confirmed and validated the two-step System-GMM results. The findings of the current research have important policy implications for balanced and sustainable growth.

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“…Such a trend eventually will be the cause of drastic social changes, economic challenges, and new demands to families, communities, and government, including demands in healthcare, whether in formal or informal care for the elderly. These demands and challenges are directly linked to all main dimensions of sustainability—social, economic, cultural, and environmental [ 6 ]—as well as the opportunities for the design of the community. To the best of our knowledge, there is still a lack of evidence on how the sedentary lifestyle adopted by the elderly might affect how society reacts properly to encourage the elderly.…”

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Authoritative Parents and Dominant Children as the Center of Communication for Sustainable Healthy Aging

Wianto

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2021

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The aging population significantly is shifting the center of gravity of the people toward older ages and median age. Indonesia, as one of the most populous countries, needs to prepare for this situation. This study tries to explain whether the elderly’s sedentary lifestyle is the consequence of intergenerational interaction patterns. Filial piety was arguably implemented, as the interaction baseline within a family member affects how the intergeneration communicates. This study uses thematic analysis based on the opinions from 16 respondents’ experiences and values with respect to behavior toward the older generation with a specific inclusion criterion. Sampling structures represented younger-generation adults who interacted daily with the elderly older generation, divided by their marital status, residencies, and living area in Indonesia. Through emerging themes, was is found out that the dominant figure in the family is the communication center in the family. The dominant figure might be an authoritative parent or dominant child. This targeted approach is useful to enhance connectivity within family members, potentially implementing the Internet of Healthy Things (IoHT) for the younger elderly to reduce undesirable sedentary lifestyles and to deliver sustainable healthy aging in Indonesian society.

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Aging, Living Environment, and Sustainability: What Should be Taken into Account?

Cited by 33 publications

References 26 publications

Research Challenges and Advancements in the field of Sustainable Energy Technologies in the Built Environment

Research Challenges and Advancements in the field of Sustainable Energy Technologies in the Built Environment

Nexus of regional integration, socioeconomic determinants and sustainable development in belt and road initiative countries

Authoritative Parents and Dominant Children as the Center of Communication for Sustainable Healthy Aging

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