Environment Management Contributed to Well-being of the Elderly According to the Accessibility for All Act

Abstract

               This academic article aims to study guidelines for environment management contributed to well-being of the elderly according to the Accessibility for All Act: public environment management that everyone can access and utilize: for supporting the aging society. The results concluded that: various factors that will happen in the future including economic and social changes, the rapid development of technology, changing environment, transformation of rural society to urban society and lower replacement birth rates inevitably affect to increase the number of elderly populations in every country, however, the problem that will follow is the lack of care for the elderly, emerging diseases related to elderly health, environmental conditions that are unsuitable and unsafe for daily use, these will affect to change the mental and physical state of elderly, therefore, finding guidelines to create and improve the well-being of the elderly by handling a suitable environment and safety for the elderly, by applying concept related to the Accessibility for All Act in suitable management of environmental health, providing a standard for managing the environment and design buildings in residential and public areas which will benefit everyone and every group, especially the elderly, disadvantaged and disabled people for can be accessed and used easily and safely, the result has been a good mental and well-being of the elderly, reduction the accidents and injury rate in the elderly, and reducing the burden of care costs, in order that, the aging society will become a more livable and safer society.