Age-Friendly Communities: Are they also "Friendly" for Death, Dying, Grief, and Bereavement?

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作者
Brassolotto, Julia [1 ]
Banerjee, Albert [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Lethbridge, Fac Hlth Sci, 4401 Univ Dr, Lethbridge, AB T1K 3M4, Canada
[2] St Thomas Univ, Dept Gerontol, Fredericton, NB, Canada
来源
CANADIAN JOURNAL ON AGING-LA REVUE CANADIENNE DU VIEILLISSEMENT | 2024年 / 43卷 / 02期
关键词
aging; age-friendly communities; compassionate communities; dying; grief; palliative care; vieillissement; collectivites-amies des aines; communautes bienveillantes; mort; deuil; soins palliatifs; COMPASSIONATE COMMUNITIES; END; CANADA; CARE;
D O I
10.1017/S0714980823000624
中图分类号
R4 [临床医学]; R592 [老年病学];
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1002 ; 100203 ; 100602 ;
摘要
The age-friendly movement aims to ensure that people can live healthy and meaningful lives as they age. It is committed to activity and inclusion, with policies, services, and structures that enable older adults to remain engaged in activities that they value. We suggest that there is further opportunity for communities to increase inclusion and reduce ageism by improving their "death-friendliness". A death-friendly approach could lay the groundwork for a community in which people do not fear getting old or alienate those who have. To this end, we consider the merits of the compassionate communities framework which has emerged out of palliative care and critical public health. Compassionate communities focus on end-of-life planning, bereavement support, and improved understandings about aging, dying, death, loss, and care. The age-friendly and compassionate communities initiatives are complementary in their objectives but have not yet converged in practice. We suggest that they should. Le mouvement des collectivites-amies des aines vise a creer les conditions d'une vie saine et satisfaisante pour les personnes vieillissantes. Il promeut l'activite et l'inclusion grace a des politiques, des services et des structures qui permettent aux personnes agees de continuer de pratiquer les activites qui leur tiennent a c oe ur. Nous suggerons que les collectivites pourraient accroitre l'inclusion et reduire l'agisme en ameliorant leur attitude face a la mort. Une conception positive de la mort pourrait etre la pierre angulaire d'une collectivite ou les gens ne craignent pas de vieillir et ou les personnes agees ne sont pas exclues. Pour etayer cette hypothese, nous etudions les bienfaits du modele des communautes bienveillantes qui a emerge des soins palliatifs et de la pensee critique sur la sante publique. Les communautes bienveillantes se concentrent sur la planification de fin de vie, le soutien dans le deuil et une meilleure comprehension du vieillissement, de la mort, de la perte et des soins. Les collectivites-amies des aines et les communautes bienveillantes sont complementaires dans leurs objectifs, mais n'ont pas encore converge dans la pratique. Nous suggerons qu'elles devraient le faire.
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