| Under the aging society,how to realize active and healthy aging has become a hot topic in theory and practice.At present,home-based care for the elderly is still the main way for the elderly,and the family and community environment are the main places for the elderly activities and an important way to ensure the functions of the elderly.In addition,the frail sensitivity and dependence of the elderly on the living physical environment and social environment are deepening,the problem of living environment suitable for aging is becoming more and more prominent.Under this background,from the perspective of the health of the elderly,studying the influence and mechanism of living environment on the mental health of the urban elderly can further provide some reference for the national livable environment construction and the improvement of living environment for the elderly,so as to better realize healthy aging and improve the health level of the elderly.Based on the healthy aging theory in the field of gerontology,interdisciplinary neighborhood effect theory,materialism model theory and adaptation level theory,this study measures the living environment of the elderly on the basis of sorting out and summarizing the research results at home and abroad,and measures the mental health of the elderly on the basis of the hard living environment elements represented by home infrastructure and community public facilities and the soft environment elements indicated by community aged care services,and the degree of depression.In this study,based on the data of China’s social tracking survey of the elderly in 2018(CLASS),the status quo of living environment construction and mental health level of urban elderly in China are summarized,and OLS regression model and moderating effect analysis method are used to analyze the influence of living environment of urban elderly on their mental health in terms of soft and hard environment elements,and explore the influencing mechanism between them.The study results found that:(1)In the hard environmental elements,the richness of home infrastructure and community public facilities has a significant positive impact on the mental health level of the urban elderly.(2)Among the soft environment factors,the supply rate of community elderly care services has a significant positive impact on the mental health of the urban elderly.(3)Living environment affects the mental health of the urban elderly.There is heterogeneity in terms of gender,age and living style.(4)Community satisfaction,as a perceptual factor,showed a significant positive regulatory effect in the influence of community elderly care services on the mental health degree of the urban elderly.(5)The influence of community participation in the community public facilities on the mental health level of the urban elderly showed a significant positive regulatory effect.Finally,this study puts forward policy suggestions to promote the mental health of the elderly from the aspects of improving the aging level of the living environment of the elderly,promoting the aging transformation of the old community,and strengthening the accurate research on the needs of the living environment of the elderly.The innovation of the study lies in:(1)The research content is deeper.The article aims to explore and open the "black box" of the occurrence process and mechanism of living environment and mental health;(2)The study perspective is relatively novel,it explores the livable environment for the elderly from the perspective of promoting healthy aging,focusing on the three-dimensional living environment closer to the life of the elderly.However,there are also some shortcomings in the research,such as the lack of macro-level data in the living environment system,only the data of the urban elderly,and the preliminary understanding of the influencing mechanism. |
