Supporting Aging-in-Place: Drivers and Desired Outcomes of a Healing Environment for Older Adults in Block Spaces of High-Density Cities.

This article focuses on developing a comprehensive multidimensional framework for healing environments tailored to older adults living in high-density city blocks, aiming to support aging in place. Through a systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis of 4,446 articles, the study identifies four key drivers of healing environments—self-environment, interpersonal environment, physical environment, and information environment—and links them to eight desired outcomes including initiative acquisition, shared vision, trust, empathy, new technologies, systematic organization, networking, and perceived usefulness. The resulting framework conceptualizes healing environments as collaborative, sustainable systems that integrate spatial design, social interactions, and digital information to enhance the physical, psychological, and social well-being of older adults in constrained urban settings. This framework addresses gaps in existing models by emphasizing the role of the information environment in the digital era and offers practical guidance for policymakers, urban planners, and researchers to improve health equity and quality of life for aging populations in densely populated cities.