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El envejecimiento está cambiando nuestra forma de vivir y convivir, con implicancias tan amplias que su abordaje por nicho de especialidad es insuficiente, haciendo fundamental generar una mirada integradora, y obligando a la academia a reconstruir sus bordes. La investigación transdisciplinaria se puede definir como los esfuerzos realizados por investigadores de diferentes disciplinas que trabajan conjuntamente para crear nuevas innovaciones conceptuales, teóricas, metodológicas y de traducción que integran y se mueven más allá de los enfoques específicos de la disciplina para abordar un problema común. La Universidad de Chile conformó la Red Transdisciplinaria sobre envejecimiento, la que agrupa a académicos de diferentes ámbitos del conocimiento, que comparten un interés común por explorar el envejecimiento, promoviendo un abordaje integrado. En enero de 2018, se realizó la quinta Escuela Internacional de Verano sobre Envejecimiento de la Universidad de Chile, donde un grupo de expertos nacionales e internacionales provenientes de distintas disciplinas que incluyeron el diseño, la salud, el urbanismo, la sociología, el derecho, la ingeniería y la arquitectura, plantearon sus posiciones, estudios y evidencias científicas en relación a una meta habitual de las personas mayores: envejecer en su entorno. Las ponencias y reflexiones integradoras se describen en esta revisión.
Aging is changing the way we live, with implications so wide that its approach by specialty is insufficient, making essential to generate an integrative view, forcing the academy to rebuild its edges. Transdisciplinary research is defined as the efforts made by researchers from different disciplines who work together to create new conceptual, theoretical, methodological and translation innovations that integrate and move beyond the specific approaches of the discipline to address a common problem. The University of Chile formed the Transdisciplinary Network on Aging, allowing the interaction of academics from different fields of knowledge, who share a common interest in exploring aging, promoting an integrated approach. In January 2018, the fifth International Summer School on Aging was held at the University of Chile, where a group of national and international experts from different disciplines including design, health, urban planning, sociology, law, engineering and architecture, raised their positions, studies and scientific evidence in relation to a common goal of the elderly: aging in place. The presentations and integrative analyzes are described in this review.
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Humans , Aged , Aging/physiology , Interdisciplinary Communication , Architectural Accessibility , Aged Rights , Personal AutonomyABSTRACT
Objective To investigate the comprehensive health status of empty-nest elders and their community service demand.Methods 137 empty-nest elders selected from urban community in Beijing were investigated by filling out health questionnaire and interviewed for service demand.Content analysis,single factor analysis and multiple linear regression model were used to analyze the influencing factors of service demand.Results The assessment of comprehensive health status indicated that the constituent ratios of excellent,general and poor health status were 7.3％,29.9％,62.8％ respectively.The top three service demands were disease prevention (86.1％),housework service demands (81.0％),and safety (62.0％).Age,empty-nest time,and comprehensive health status were associated with community service demands,and the comprehensive health status was the main influencing factor.Conclusions The comprehensive health status of empty-nest elders are poor,they have more service demands,corresponding measures should be provided to improve their need satisfaction rate.