Abstract：
With demographic trends highlighting an inversion of the farming community age pyramid, with those aged 65 years and over constituting the fastest growing subgroup of the farming population globally, this article highlights a social initiative for older farmers called Farmer\'s Yards, embodying values, and aspirations pertinent to farmers in their later years, that is helping to create an age-friendly environment in farming in line with World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines. By providing older farmers with a platform for sustained social engagement and inclusion within the farming community, this social initiative aligns with principles promoting active and healthy aging, thereby contributing positively to their mental health and wellbeing in later life. In doing so, Farmer\'s Yards is helping to address recent calls by the European Commission for an increased emphasis on the delivery of creative mechanisms that enhance the quality of life of older farmers through social policy. The pilot phase of this social initiative outlined in this article, held in a Livestock Mart (Auction Market) setting in the west of Ireland, demonstrates how Farmer\'s Yards can strengthen Mart\'s long-standing position and reputation as centres of social activity within rural areas by helping older farmers maintain legitimate social connectedness, collegiality, and comradeship with their peers in advancing age in their respective regions, and in turn, combat social isolation and loneliness in later life. Recommendations for future research and on the expansion of Farmer\'s Yards are subsequently outlined.
摘要：
随着人口趋势凸显农业社区年龄金字塔的倒置，65岁及以上的人口构成全球农业人口增长最快的亚组，这篇文章强调了一种针对老年农民的社会倡议，叫做农民院子，体现价值观，和农民晚年的愿望，这有助于根据世界卫生组织（WHO）的指导方针在农业中创造一个对年龄友好的环境。通过为老年农民提供持续社会参与和参与农业社区的平台，这一社会倡议符合促进积极健康老龄化的原则，从而在以后的生活中对他们的心理健康和福祉做出积极贡献。在这样做的时候，Farmer\'sYards正在帮助解决欧盟委员会最近的呼吁，即更加重视提供创造性机制，通过社会政策提高老年农民的生活质量。本文概述了这一社会倡议的试点阶段，在爱尔兰西部的牲畜市场（拍卖市场）举行，展示了农民的院子如何通过帮助老年农民保持合法的社会联系来加强玛特作为农村地区社会活动中心的长期地位和声誉，合议,以及与各自地区同龄人的同志关系，反过来,在以后的生活中与社会孤立和孤独作斗争。随后概述了未来研究和扩大农场主院子的建议。
