Employing Participatory Citizen Science Methods to Promote Age-Friendly Environments Worldwide.

摘要: The trajectory of aging is profoundly impacted by the physical and social environmental contexts in which we live. While “top–down” policy activities can have potentially wide impacts on such contexts, they often take time, resources, political will, therefore be less accessible to underserved communities. This article describes a “bottom–up”, resident-engaged method advance local change, called Our Voice, that complement policy-level strategies for improving health, function, well-being older adults. Using World Health Organization’s age-friendly cities global strategy, describe Voice citizen science program research has specifically targeted adults as change agents improve their own health well Results from 14 studies occurred across five continents demonstrate learn use mobile technology systematically capture collectively analyze data. They then successfully build consensus around high-priority issues realistically changed work effectively with stakeholders enact meaningful changes help promote healthy aging. ends recommended next steps growing field welfare all