Socially Integrative Planning Characteristics of Elderly Housing in “Share Kanazawa” Community Village of Japan

Abstract

Purpose: While rapid economic growth in the recent years helped improve the quality of life of our modern society, the declining birth rate, & super aging population have brought a serious concern for the future. Among the diverse coping strategies to prepare for the future, community planning introduces a way to promote aging in place. The purpose of this research is to extract successful socially integrated planning features and useful implications from a supportive-housing in the community village, Share Kanazawa, located in a rural area 3 hours away from Tokyo, Japan. The Village has been considered as an innovative practice due to its unique and quality approach towards a sustainable community. Method: This research is qualitative research which employed a field visit observation and in-depth interviews for data collection along with the literature survey. To analyze the socio-integrative planning characteristics, 2 aspects were selected such as community engagement and flexi-care service which are key factors to cause social integration. Result: As a result, the community assets including humanware, hardware and contentsware characteristics of the village were analyzed and discussed in relation to the two socio-integrative aspects. The characteristics of the village, its unique approach to promote engagement and to provide flexi-care can be useful in developing a Korean model to cope with the rapid aging society problem.

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