Category:
Taxonomies
Net4Age Ontology Terms:
aging
, building
, housing
, place
Description:
Working taxonomy KPI Framework for Smart age friendly living environments
Overview:
The working taxonomy of age-friendly homes presents a structured and detailedbreakdown of what it means for a home to be age-friendly? Which functions does thehome environment have to fulfil? Which elements in its location, setting, design,construction and components contribute to its fitness for purpose? Which stakeholdergroups are in some way involved with the age-friendly home environment and what dothey need and want from the home in order for it to be fit for their social, practical oreconomic purpose? The working taxonomy is a first attempt to answer these questions ina structured way. In doing so, it aims to fill an evident gap in current understanding of anddiscussions around age-friendly homes: the lack of basic shared descriptive language foracademic and practical discourse. This lack of a common reference framework hindersefforts to improve the age-friendliness of the European stock of homes: without a usableframework it is very hard to identify which problems to tackle, which intervention strategiesare likely to work, and/or how to incentivize improvements appropriately.
Objectives:
Three main objectives. Interms of agenda-setting, work on the taxonomy has sought to redefine the terms ?smart?and ?integrated? from the narrow ICT-sense in which they are currently applied to thehome environment. Work on the taxonomy has sought to demonstrate that ?smart? canbe more usefully understood in a teleological sense as the extent to which a homecontributes to the personal and organisational aspirations of its occupants and otherstakeholders and can adapt as these change over time. ?Integrated?, likewise, should beconstrued more broadly as describing how well a home is embedded in its spatial andsocial context, and the extent to which it helps its occupants to maintain existing socialnetworks and build new connections. Conceptually, the goal of the taxonomy is toaddress a number of specific current gaps in understanding of and approaches to age-friendly homes. Practically, and most importantly for a working instrument, the taxonomysets itself the task to develop a reference framework that works to support and tie togetherthe Homes4Life project objectives.
Initiatives:
taxonomy as a canvas to map meanings, impacts and priorities
Shortcomings:
Hard to adopt by many, standardize
Relevance:
3
Relevance Description:
Common language, understansing of age friendly homes
Quality:
3
Opinion:
Relevant initiative towards standardization
Recommended:
Yes
Overlap:
No
Overlap Detail:
Sources:
http://www.homes4life.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Homes4Life_D2.4_D3.1.pdf / http://www.homes4life.eu
Keywords:
taxonomy, KPI, Need or Preference, NoP, integrated living environment, ageing well, stakeholders' perspectives, age-friendly home functions, @homes4life
Submitted By:
Willeke van Staalduinen
Email:
andrej.grguric@gmail.com