In recent years, “aging population” and “low fertility” have become the issue of concern in Taiwan. This research discusses the two social phenomena of caring and nursing for elderly people, with special focus on Taiwan’s non-metropolitan areas where only elderly people remain because most of their next generations have moved to metropolitan areas to pursue opportunities of education or career. On the other hand, as time goes by, many parents no longer consider living with their own children to be the best choice while growing old. Hence the elderly people who choose to live in their original place till the end of the life will become the trend in the future. This research starts from the concept of “aging in place” and the field study was conducted on Tai-tung Sugar Factory Kuang-ming Community. In addition, based on the special background of “work/live community”, this study investigates the implementing factors of “aging in place” by living environment, daily activities and living patterns of elderly people in Kuang-ming Community. The results of this study shows three key points：1. The physical environmental setting is helpful to establish a precious informal support network and the social environment which is tightly linked with local sentiments. 2. Developing local resources in “multi-function”, “sharing” and “fine-tuning” ways are beneficial to complete the requirements for aged life. 3. To strengthen the functions of community could reduce the disparity between expectations and executions of “aging in place” of the elderly people. Furthermore, the making of social policies should think about the influences of social values. They not only create the “common interests”, but also concern about the “universal welfare”. From the point of view of community planning, the meaning of “aging in place” goes along with another issue－how to establish a community having enough tolerance in any period of life cycle? This could achieve sustainable development of living environment and local resources.