Ageing in Place: The Out-of-Home Travel Patterns of Seniors in Victoria and its Policy Implications

Engels, Benno; Liu, Gangjun

doi:10.1080/08111146.2012.737316

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“…Older people tend to use public transport more frequently if there is easy access to public transport in neighbourhoods at a distance less than 5 min away [ 67 ]. This is also consistent with existing research that found that the frequency of public transport and wait time affected older people’s willingness to travel [ 68 ] and that a high proportion of older people are no longer driving [ 69 ].…”

Section: Transportsupporting

confidence: 91%

“…A local or lived environment must provide accessible buildings, housing and transport, along with opportunities for social activities to occur if social inclusion and social participation are supported and encouraged. Previous research on the services deemed important for older people has emphasised the importance of local services, such as shops [ 37 , 69 ], and this is supported by the use of new spatial indicators that can access formal and informal places to meet. These include recommended indicators of access to social clubs/senior citizens clubs or participation in international clubs, like Rotary or Probus, that are more formally organised by older people themselves.…”

Section: Respect and Social Inclusionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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How Can the Lived Environment Support Healthy Ageing? A Spatial Indicators Framework for the Assessment of Age-Friendly Communities

Davern

Winterton

Brasher³

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IJERPH

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The Age-Friendly Cities and Communities Guide was released by the World Health Organization over a decade ago with the aim of creating environments that support healthy ageing. The comprehensive framework includes the domains of outdoor spaces and buildings, transportation, housing, social participation, respect and inclusion, civic participation and employment, communication and information, and community and health services. A major critique of the age-friendly community movement has argued for a more clearly defined scope of actions, the need to measure or quantify results and increase the connections to policy and funding levers. This paper provides a quantifiable spatial indicators framework to assess local lived environments according to each Age-Friendly Cities and Communities (AFC) domain. The selection of these AFC spatial indicators can be applied within local neighbourhoods, census tracts, suburbs, municipalities, or cities with minimal resource requirements other than applied spatial analysis, which addresses past critiques of the Age-Friendly Community movement. The framework has great potential for applications within local, national, and international policy and planning contexts in the future.

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Section: Transportsupporting

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Section: Respect and Social Inclusionmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Can the Lived Environment Support Healthy Ageing? A Spatial Indicators Framework for the Assessment of Age-Friendly Communities

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Winterton

Brasher³

et al. 2020

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“…If there is little or no public transport, what then? The loss of discretionary trips that are so important to quality of life is particularly significant (Davey, 2007;Buys et al, 2012;Engels and Liu, 2013). People can become trapped within their own homes, their real worlds can then shrink very rapidly, and isolation can easily lead to depression and other health problems.…”

Section: Movingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Just where will you spend your ‘inevitable citizenship in the country of the old’?

Crabb

2016

Geographical Research

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On retirement, most people ‘stay put’ in the family home. However, many move, by choice or out of necessity, especially in old old age, when, for one reason or other, the dwelling is no longer suitable. Some stay within the known community, whereas others move further afield, notably the sea and tree changers. Whatever the choice of location, the dwelling needs to be appropriate. So, too, must be the location; a place that is ‘nice’ for a holiday is not necessarily nice for retirement. Proximity and access to needed services and facilities are critical, including when one can no longer drive. Unfortunately, a lack of research or letting emotions take over can result in wrong choices being made, for individual dwellings and retirement villages. The personal and societal costs, financial and intangible, of choosing the wrong location for retirement are large. Australia may not be facing a ‘crisis’ because of its increasing numbers of older people, but these same people can make a positive contribution to their well‐being, personally and nationally, by being much more careful when deciding where to spend their ‘inevitable citizenship in the country of the old’. It is a decision to which geographers have important contributions to make.

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“…Transport is critical to anyone who wishes to access health or social services (Iezzoni, Killeen & O'Day, 2006;Sheppard, 2005), and elderly and disabled people are likely to have greater need for health services than others. These issues are raised as significant concerns for policy in Engels and Liu (2013). All rural longerdistance travel is more likely to be for social and medical purposes than travel to work.…”

Section: Conceptualising Social Inclusion/exclusion In the Rural Tranmentioning

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Replacing trains with coaches: implications for social inclusion in rural New South Wales

Gray

Crichton

2014

Journal of Social Inclusion

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With the future of New South Wales (NSW) regional train services under question, concern has been expressed that replacement of trains with coaches will diminish levels of mobility and raise social exclusion for some people. Provision has been made on coaches for people considered to be disabled, but without recognition of the needs of people who do not fit either able or disabled categorisation. All train services offer better accessibility and therefore mobility to all people. The issue of regional train service cessation and replacement raises questions regarding the reliability of existing Australian studies about train service replacement, the degree to which health and illness are affected, as well as the potential for the exacerbation of existing social exclusion. An examination of the literature and some historical investigation undertaken by the authors highlights these limitations amid the ableism/disablism dualism in existing research and rural transport policy. The paper further suggests that the absence of Australian evidence of mobility loss should not be taken to indicate the reality of regional mobility and social inclusion.Instead the paper argues that further independent mobility loss and social exclusion may occur if coaches are further substituted for regional train services.

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Ageing in Place: The Out-of-Home Travel Patterns of Seniors in Victoria and its Policy Implications

Cited by 24 publications

References 21 publications

How Can the Lived Environment Support Healthy Ageing? A Spatial Indicators Framework for the Assessment of Age-Friendly Communities

How Can the Lived Environment Support Healthy Ageing? A Spatial Indicators Framework for the Assessment of Age-Friendly Communities

Just where will you spend your ‘inevitable citizenship in the country of the old’?

Replacing trains with coaches: implications for social inclusion in rural New South Wales

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