Active Ageing: Inspiration of the Active Adult Retirement Community in the United States

Facing the problem of fast ageing, "Ageing-in-place" model has become a worldwide consensus strategy because it not only embodies the "Active Ageing" concept, but also reduces the burden of public finance.Retirement community is an important space to realize the "Active Ageing" and "Ageing-in-place" strategies.This article takes "The Villages" in Florida as a case to introduce the experience of "Active Adult Retirement Community" (AARC) in the United States.Compared to AARC, the domestic academic community and real estate industry are more concerned about "Continuous Care Retirement Community"(CCRC).This paper compares AARC and CCRC to explore the future model of China's retirement community construction.This study finds out that the elderly should be regarded as the mainstream population with active participation in social, economic, cultural, spiritual, civic and other affairs.Retirement communities should help them to build social networks through rich cultural and social activities to achieve physical and mental pleasure.The successful experience of AARC provides a positive and effective response to the upcoming wave of ageing in China.