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Abstract
The world`s elderly population is growing at unprecedented rates, six times faster than the rest of the age groups population. Linked to this, the elderly health and wellbeing are affected by a series of complex interactions between social, physical, mental, economic, physical environment and individual behaviors. Even though, cities have not planned for this demographic shift and elderly health needs yet. Accordingly, there is an urgent need to ensure the age friendliness of cities and communities to support the elderly population. The theoretical framework of this research first considers the elderly health determinants, impact on the built environment and the active aging concept and framework development. It then discusses the “Age Friendly Communities” initiative and the global studies that developed in accordance to it. After that, the research introduces the indicators system as the most effective method that evaluates the age friendliness of a community. Moreover, it can act as basic age friendly design components as well. Secondly, the theoretical framework explores the indicators selection and development process of both WHO and PHAC frameworks. After the WHO established a list of core and supplementary indicators for age friendliness, the PHAC customized the indicators list according to their conditions. Based on this focus, the analytical study attempts to customize a local age friendly community indicators list and test it through a selected case study. This is achieved through designing seven methodological stages that comprises listing the global indicators list, a comparative analysis and identifying evaluation and auditing tools. Tools are combined with surveys and questionnaires for results. A link between findings in relation between the elderly health and physical and social environment relation is obtained at the end.