ISO/TC 314 - Ageing societies

This document provides requirements and guidance for the planning, development, implementation and evaluation of smart multigenerational neighbourhoods. It establishes a framework for neighbourhoods to deploy enabling systems that actively support, adapt to and care for people of different ages and abilities as their needs change across the life course, enhancing wellbeing and addressing long-term pressures related to ageing, health, care and community resilience. This document applies to both new developments and the enhancement, regeneration and retrofitting of existing neighbourhoods and real estate. It is intended for use by public authorities, investors, planners, developers, designers, service and technology providers, systems integrators, and community and civic organisations involved in neighbourhood planning, delivery and long-term stewardship.

This document specifies requirements and recommendations for the provision of health and social care services for older persons by healthcare and social care workforce, irrespective of whether the service is provided in the persons own home or in a care home. The services concerned also include short-term care e.g. respite care, enablement, and rehabilitation. Care services are provided in a variety of settings. While this document focuses on services provided in care facilities and care at home, including preventive, responsive, palliative and end of life care, many of the requirements and recommendations can be applied to the provision of care services in any setting. Service provision is based on the individual needs and preferences of the older person to assist self-determination, participation, safety, and security. The document encompasses the holistic needs of older persons receiving care at home and at care homes and the workforce, taking into consideration principles of equity, diversity, and inclusion. This document applies to all providers of care and support to older persons irrespective of size, structure, legal set up, or funding model (i.e. public, private or non-profit). This document does not cover standardization of clinical guidelines, medical devices and building codes (engineering and structural).

This document provides guidance for enhancing safety and usability aspects of smart home products, services, and systems to enable older persons to live the healthy lives they desire. It presents a process to assess the needs of older persons who use smart products, services, and systems in the smart home, the general living space of the future society, to select, apply, and evaluate appropriate smart home products, services, and systems. This document addresses older persons’ safety and usability needs as their health conditions and lifestyles change. It applies to designers, developers, and providers of smart homes for older persons and products, services, and systems in smart homes.

This document provides general requirements and guidelines for an ageing-inclusive digital economy, aiming to enhance its applicability and credibility. It specifies the principles, aspects, scenarios, and actions for establishing or transforming to an ageing-inclusive digital economy. This document is applicable to consumers, policymakers, administrations, organizations, and other stakeholders in the digital economy. The requirements and guidelines in this document focus specifically on older persons. This document does not cover information technology, ergonomics, and related requirements and guidelines which are defined or covered by other standards.

This document presents guidelines to establish, implement, evaluate and continuously improve wellbeing, to promote healthy ageing at the level of community and individual members. This document is applicable to any community, regardless of size, type and nature. Management of occupational safety and health is outside of the scope of this document. This document does not cover economic and financial aspects.

This document provides a collection of design considerations from existing international standards as well as best practices and observations obtained from the home healthcare field. This document is intended to be used as a reference for designing accessibility and usability of home healthcare products and associated services, and environments designed for non-professional users. This document does not provide information on the use of home healthcare products by healthcare professionals regardless of the place and facility of use.

This document provides requirements and guidelines to achieve an age-inclusive workforce, which has the potential of adding value for organizations, workers, communities and other stakeholders. This document enables organizations and other stakeholders to develop, implement, maintain and support an age-inclusive workforce. It provides opportunities for older workers, working internal or external to the organization, to be productive. This document is applicable to all organizations regardless of type or size, and to all work arrangements and all forms of relationships between organizations and workers. While organizations need to be inclusive of all workers regardless of age, these requirements and guidelines focus specifically on older workers. NOTE It does not imply that younger workers are excluded. Organizations can tailor these requirements and guidelines according to their own role and specific context.

This document provides a framework for dementia-inclusive communities, including principles and the considerations of inclusion, quality of life, built environments, special needs groups, and stakeholder engagement. It also provides guidance on how to systematically leverage, improve, and interconnect their existing assets and structures and transform efficiently into a dementia-inclusive community. This document does not provide any clinical standards.

This document specifies requirements and provides guidelines for an organizational program for working carers providing care to: — adult care recipients (e.g. adults with cognitive, sensory, physical, and invisible disabilities, adults with chronic or episodic conditions and older dependents); — long-term childcare recipients (e.g. due to chronic illness or permanent cognitive, sensory or physical disability or injury). This document is applicable to any organization, regardless of size, sector or community setting (i.e. urban, rural or remote). This document can be used in conjunction with an organization’s management systems, human resource programs, and/or equity, diversity and inclusion programs, or on its own in the absence of a formal workplace program to support working carers.