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  • Social Gerontology
  • Community Development
  • Social Innovation Studies

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  • Aging is often treated as an unexpected crisis, leading to inadequate policies and services.
  • Current approaches fail to address systemic issues like loneliness, health and social care demands, and social exclusion.
  • Social innovation, including time-banks and circular economies, offers alternative models for addressing aging challenges.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To reframe aging as a systemic societal issue requiring integrated solutions.
  • To explore how social innovation can address the multifaceted challenges of an aging population.
  • To propose a framework for understanding and fostering transformative social innovation for aging in communities.

Main Methods:

  • Review of four international case studies on social innovation and aging.
  • Analysis of community-led initiatives and alternative transaction models.
  • Development of a framework based on identified key factors.

Main Results:

  • Aging presents systemic challenges impacting health, social care, housing, and inclusion.
  • Social innovation initiatives can fulfill economic, social, environmental, and psychological needs.
  • A framework emerged with four cornerstones: government roles, value creation, co-creation, and technology (digital social currency).

Conclusions:

  • Aging requires systemic, community-focused solutions rather than isolated interventions.
  • Transformative social innovation can enhance older adults' social and economic relevance within communities.
  • Establishing Living Labs for Aging-in-Place is recommended for testing community-led solutions to systemic aging challenges.