Studying the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) of Sustainable Age-Friendly City Indexes in Tehran

Now, population aging has become a global phenomenon. This phenomenon has been resulted from global fertility rate decrease together with increasing elderly age. The aim of this research is studying the relationship between Age-friendly city indexes which have been introduced by World Health Organization (WHO), and the rate of their effect on dependent variable of sustainable Age-friendly city in Tehran. The research is conducted by survey method and the standard questionnaire of WHO has been distributed targeted and non-randomly among 115 experts and the analysis was made by Pierson Correlation test, Confirmatory factor analysis, and Structural Equation Modeling techniques (SEM). The research analysis was done in SPSS23 and Lisrel8.8 softwares. Results of the model test show that in 99 percent confidence level of the 6 indexes (Housing, Social participation, Respect for the elderly and social inclusion, Citizen participation and employment, Communication and information, and Health and local services) have a meaningful relation with sustainable Age-friendly City project (P