City features for embracing ageing-friendly city concept in Malaysia urban area / Siti Noorhawa Azyze Ellah Azyze

Malaysia have limited time in planning towards becoming an ageing nation in the urban areas. The problem arise as ageing population are a special group with unique physical and social environment needs, thus, it is important to determine planning approach for ageing-friendly environment. Therefore, a framework of city features for ageing population based on local context need to be developed. The research aims to determine city features in embracing ageing -friendly city concept in Malaysia urban area. Three primary objectives of this study are to identify city features of ageing-friendly city concept, to determine city features of ageing -friendly city that are appropriate in Malaysia urban area and to propose framework of Ageing -friendly City Based on the Features in Malaysia Urban Area. Prior to that, mixed method approach was adopted in this research which qualitative approach used were structured content analyses by using ATLAS.ti 8 and sets of questionnaires for respondents who aged 65 years above and career of aged people as quantitative approach.