Research on elderly-friendly environments in China started relatively late. Initially, it focused on urban environments, and later gradually paid attention to the psychological and physiological needs of the elderly, becoming increasingly refined. Overall, the evaluation of urban elderly-friendliness focuses on public service facilities in urban residential areas, the elderly-friendliness of community public Spaces, urban leisure green Spaces, the elderly-friendliness of residential buildings, the evaluation of elderly-friendly cities, and public space facilities in old residential areas.By analyzing the influencing factors of elderly-friendliness through structural equations, a comprehensive and systematic elderly-friendly design evaluation system and design strategies can be constructed, attempting to create a green, harmonious, comfortable and convenient modern rural living environment for the elderly . through the interpretation and analysis of the related concepts of rural landscape, elderly-friendly design, and emotional design, determined the convergence point of emotional design theory and the practice of elderly-friendly rural landscape design, and analyzed the specific application of Conrad Norman's three-level design theory.

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