Europe's ageing population increases the demand for housing solutions targeting older citizens' needs and preferences. Establishing age-friendly communities fostering social participation is essential for healthy ageing and various housing options with shared facilities prioritizing social contact have emerged. While involving older people in public service delivery is emphasized, studies on co-production with older people in building age-friendly communities remain limited. This study explores a co-production initiative between older citizens, a municipality and a real estate company in a newly established senior village focusing on organizational settings and physical facilities. A qualitative study inspired by the BIKVA methodology was conducted using focus group interviews with citizens, frontline staff, and management. Through reflexive thematic analysis, the physical environment, organizational setting and other factors influencing the co-production process were analysed. Citizens expressed satisfaction with the unique physical environment, the different activities and being involved in the co-production process on development and building up the senior village. However, the co-production initiative was influenced by the lack of frontline staff involvement, how the physical facilities were organized for building inclusive communities as well as the level of information provided to align expectations among stakeholders. Involving older citizens in the co-production of age-friendly community initiatives has the potential to take the identified challenges into account. To understand what constitutes an optimal environment for healthy ageing further research in collaboration with older citizens is needed.

Department of Public Health Unit for Health Promotion University of Southern Denmark 6705 Esbjerg Ø Denmark

Olomouc University Social Health Institute OUSI Palacky University Olomouc Katerinska 653 17 77900 Olomouc Czech Republic

Zobrazit více v PubMed

Demography of Europe [Internet].

Vrangbæk, K., Scheele, C. E. & Kriegbaum, M. Voluntary associations and co-production of health promoting activities for older adults: Experiences and policy lessons from Denmark. PubMed DOI

World Health Organization.

World Health Organization.

World Health Organization.

Menec, V. H., Means, R., Keating, N., Parkhurst, G. & Eales, J. Conceptualizing age-friendly communities. PubMed DOI

Koelen, M. & Eriksson, M. PubMed

Rusinovic, K., Bochove, M. V. & Sande, J. V. D. Senior co-housing in the Netherlands: Benefits and drawbacks for its residents. PubMed DOI PMC

Hudson, J. Senior co-housing: Restoring sociable community in later life. In

Jolanki, O. & Vilkko, A. The meaning of a “sense of community” in a Finnish senior co-housing community. DOI

Pedersen, M. Senior co-housing communities in Denmark. DOI

Lietaert, M. Cohousing’s relevance to degrowth theories. DOI

Kazak, J. K. Intergenerational social housing for older adults: Findings from a Central European city. DOI

Arentshorst, M. E., Kloet, R. R. & Peine, A. Intergenerational housing: The case of humanitas Netherlands. DOI

Labit, A. & Dubost, N. Housing and ageing in France and Germany: The intergenerational solution. DOI

Beck, A. F. What is co-housing? Developing a conceptual framework from the studies of Danish intergenerational co-housing. DOI

Kim, D., Bian, H., Chang, C. K., Dong, L. & Margrett, J. In-home monitoring technology for aging in place: Scoping review. PubMed DOI PMC

Verma, I., Høyland, K. & Lindahl, L. Nordic approaches to housing and ageing—Current concepts and future needs. In

Anghel, I. PubMed DOI PMC

Silvius, H. A. M. PubMed DOI PMC

Oswald, F. A. W. Dimensions of the meaning of home in later life. In

Puts, M. T. E. PubMed DOI

Forte, D. Relationships. In

Nyqvist, F., Cattan, M., Andersson, L., Forsman, A. K. & Gustafson, Y. Social capital and loneliness among the very old living at home and in institutional settings: A comparative study. PubMed DOI

Fang, M. L. PubMed DOI

World Health Organization.

Arnstein, S. R. A ladder of citizen participation. DOI

Van Hoof, J. PubMed DOI PMC

Fusco, F., Marsilio, M. & Guglielmetti, C. Co-production in health policy and management: A comprehensive bibliometric review. PubMed DOI PMC

Voorberg, W. H., Bekkers, V. J. J. M. & Tummers, L. G. A systematic review of co-creation and co-production: Embarking on the social innovation journey. DOI

Andersen, L. L. Hygum Espersen, H. Samskabelse, samproduktion og partnerskaber—teoretiske perspektiver. In

Andersen, P. T. & Bak, C. K. Empowerment, brugerinddragelse og samskabelse i praksis. In

Batalden, M. PubMed DOI PMC

Voorberg, W., Bekkers, V., Timeus, K., Tonurist, P. & Tummers, L. Changing public service delivery: Learning in co-creation. DOI

Loeffler, E. & Bovaird, T. From participation to co-production: Widening and deepening the contributions of citizens to public services and outcomes. In

Brandsen, T. H. M. Definitions of co-production and co-creation. In

Ostrom, E. Metropolitan reform: Propositions derived from two traditions.

Ostrom, E. Crossing the great divide. World development.

Krogstrup, H. & Brix, J.

Ocloo, J., Garfield, S., Franklin, B. D. & Dawson, S. Exploring the theory, barriers and enablers for patient and public involvement across health, social care and patient safety: A systematic review of reviews. PubMed DOI PMC

Baldwin, J. N., Napier, S., Neville, S. & Wright-St Clair, V. A. Impacts of older people’s patient and public involvement in health and social care research: A systematic review. PubMed DOI

James, H. & Buffel, T. Co-research with older people: A systematic literature review. DOI

Brookfield, K., Scott, I., Tinker, A. & Thompson, C. W. Perspectives on “novel” techniques for designing age-friendly homes and neighborhoods with older adults. PubMed DOI PMC

Van Hoof, J. & Boerenfijn, P. Re-inventing existing real estate of social housing for older people: Building a new de benring in Voorst, The Netherlands. DOI

Esbjerg Municipality.

World Health Organization.

World Health Organization.

Krogstrup, H.

Krogstrup, H. K. & Brix, J.

Krogstrup, H. Brugerinddragelse i kvalitetsvurdering af sociale indsatsområder: en dialog og læringsorienteret evalueringsmetode.

Zetland.

QSR International.

Braun, V. & Clarke, V.

Hussain, B. PubMed DOI PMC

Jones, C. A. PubMed DOI PMC

Douglas, H., Georgiou, A. & Westbrook, J. Social participation as an indicator of successful aging: An overview of concepts and their associations with health. PubMed DOI

Levasseur, M., Richard, L., Gauvin, L. & Raymond, É. Inventory and analysis of definitions of social participation found in the aging literature: Proposed taxonomy of social activities. PubMed DOI PMC

Townsend, B. G., Chen, J. T. H. & Wuthrich, V. M. Barriers and facilitators to social participation in older Adults: A systematic literature review. PubMed DOI

Osborne, S. P. & Strokosch, K. It takes two to Tango? Understanding the co-production of Public Services by integrating the services management and public administration perspectives.

Torfing, J., Ferlie, E., Jukić, T. & Ongaro, E. A theoretical framework for studying the co-creation of innovative solutions and public value. DOI

Torfing, J., Sørensen, E. & Brogaard, L. The impact of governance on the outcomes of contracting out. DOI

Biljohn, M. I. M. & Lues, L. Doing it together: How co-production underpins the use of social innovation during service delivery.

Torfing, J., Sørensen, E. & Røiseland, A. Transforming the public sector into an arena for co-creation: Barriers, drivers, benefits, and ways forward. DOI

Gardziulevičienė, L., Raišys, S. J. & Raišienė, A. G. Drivers fostering citizens to participate in co-creation process for public service quality.

Bovaird, T., Van Ryzin, G. G., Loeffler, E. & Parrado, S. Activating citizens to participate in collective co-production of public services. DOI

Cohen, N., Mizrahi, S. & Vigoda-Gadot, E. Alternative provision of public health care: The role of citizens’ satisfaction with public services and the social responsibility of government. PubMed DOI

Yang, Y. Is transparency a double-edged sword in citizen satisfaction with public service? Evidence from China’s public healthcare.

Albert, A., Islam, S., Haklay, M. & McEachan, R. R. C. Nothing about us without us: A co-production strategy for communities, researchers and stakeholders to identify ways of improving health and reducing inequalities. PubMed DOI PMC

Larsen, F. & Caswell, D. Co-creation in an era of welfare conditionality—Lessons from Denmark. DOI

Glover, L., Dyson, J., Cowdell, F. & Kinsey, D. Healthy ageing in a deprived northern UK city: A co-creation study. PubMed DOI

Leask, C. F., Colledge, N., Laventure, R. M. E., McCann, D. A. & Skelton, D. A. Co-creating recommendations to redesign and promote strength and balance service provision. PubMed DOI PMC