The friendly living environment for the elderly is far away from us. Building an elderly-friendly city from both hardware and software. Among them, in terms of hardware, it is proposed to build and transform infrastructure and physical environment for aging, including outdoor space and buildings, transportation and housing; In terms of software, it is required to build a social service environment friendly to the elderly, including social participation, respect and social inclusion, citizen participation and employment, communication and information, community support and medical care services.

The two aspects are both inside and outside each other, and * * * together constitute an elderly-friendly theme city. Family and community are the basic units of a city. As the realization end of an old-age-friendly city, the function list of related old-age-friendly environment should be more practical.

To build a friendly family and community environment for the elderly, we must start with appropriate hardware facilities and high-quality software services to meet the different needs of the elderly, give full play to their functions, promote their social participation and self-realization, and enhance their sense of acquisition, happiness and security.

At present, there is still a big gap between the quality of family and community friendly environment for the elderly in China and that in western developed countries. In order to implement the concept of healthy aging, it is necessary to further eliminate environmental obstacles.