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The purpose of this study is to verify the causality between the elderly's health perception and the satisfaction of urban built environment and the frequency of social relationship and to find policy implications on successful aging friendly urban policy and strategies. To get this purpose, this study consider the existing literatures about the built environment, the social relationship, the experience of accident, the activities of daily living, and the elderly's health. And then this study develop some study hypotheses and finally examine them using a SEM. And also, this study were tested for the elderly and non-elderly population. The principal results of this study are as follows. The built environment satisfaction of the city had a positive effect on subjective health of both elderly and non of the two groups. On the other hand, the social relations that have been proven to positively impact relationships only with ADL in the elderly. The policy implications is as follow. In order to success the aging friendly urban healthy city and programs which are included by the accident free and the ADL. The government should reflect the aging friendly urban design technique while they make the urban action and design guideline. And also, the government should reflect the social relationship and social capital of the aged for preparing the urban strategy planning and acting planning.