Your environment includes nature, background, and setting.
The natural environment encompasses nature, ecosystem, earth, world, and the cosmos or universe. Environmental setting represents the location site, surroundings, atmosphere or scenery in which one lives.
Your background environment is the situation, milieu, circumstances, and conditions in which you live and function. Your environment can range from life enhancing to dysfunctional, to detrimental.
The natural environment encompasses nature, ecosystem, earth, world, and the cosmos or universe. Environmental setting represents the location site, surroundings, atmosphere or scenery in which one lives.
Your background environment is the situation, milieu, circumstances, and conditions in which you live and function. Your environment can range from life enhancing to dysfunctional, to detrimental.
We can speak in terms of our indoor environment as representing our home. Whereas our outdoor environment is what we consider as our yard space as defined by legal property boundaries. If you are employed, you have a work environment. You also have a social environment which can be essential to best well-being. Social environment refers to the interactions you have with others. These interactions include the relationships you have with family, friends, and community; and the quality of interactions and connections.
Think about your physical environment in terms of the following questions.
Think about your physical environment in terms of the following questions.
- Is it safe in terms of air quality?
- Are the areas or rooms neat, well-organized and uncluttered?
- Are the entrance and exit paths clearly visible and aisles unobstructed?
- Is the furniture or equipment functional, well-designed and appropriate for the task?
- Is the building free from hazardous materials, and current with fire, smoke, and carbon dioxide protection?
- Is it safe in terms of physical security?
A Healthy Aging Home EnvironmentWhether aging-in-place, living in a senior housing unit, or residing in an assisted-living facility, your home environment, where you spend the majority of your time, should be the kind of place that gives you the joy, peace, and the comfort you expect and deserve.
There are 10 important characteristics of a healthy and holistic aging environment. These include safety and security, personal control, sensory stimulation, privacy, continuity of self, social interactions, functional independence, meaningful activity, spirituality, and architectural delight. |
Aging Within the Context of Your CommunityWhat is a community? It is not only a place but also its residents. It is you and those around you who live in the same area. It is that particular place you call home. It is your neighborhood. It includes the environmental geography as well as local services, amenities, and local government agencies.
Its boundaries are often defined not only in terms of geography, but also social, economic, political, and cultural milieu. The idea of community can be as simple or as complex as construed by each individual. |
Aging and Your Cultural Environment Culture is found in collective ethos, philosophy, values, shared principles, beliefs, and ethics. Culture is expressed through the arts, music, and literature. Culture exudes a communal way-of-being, ways of living, mutual understanding and idealization. Culture has a shared, particular, distinctive collective atmosphere, morality, and spiritual character.
Culture is a prime external factor. It is internalized over time as a result of your shared social environment, from your childhood and through the years. Cultural permeates your way-of-being, influencing perceptions and behaviors. |