Abstract Body

The key elements of livable environment often include attractive public spaces, walkable, mixed use, higher density neighborhoods that support range of green infrastructure and transport, affordable housing, vibrant, exciting, sociable, human-scaled and friendly pedestrian experiences. Issues such as poverty eradication, health resilience, gender equality, employment and sustainable human settlements are conducive in the reduction of inequality within and across urban centers to promote inclusive living habitat.

However, considering that place-based information on elders’ social attributes and place attachment is rare or nonexistent. This article presents the systemic design thinking and prototype framework for optimal dwelling docility for ageing-in-place with the sub-tropic Taipei City in mind. The research concludes that: (1) the resilience process of health and wellbeing must consider people, place and process to attain optimal dwelling; (2) docility criteria incorporate the habitat and environmental enhancement measures, (3) prevailing preference in maintenance of physical space necessitates for stakeholders engaged in improving the ageing-in place community as the core of this study.