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Perspectives on Active Transportation in a Mid-Sized Age-Friendly City: “You Stay Home”
Background: Active transportation is an affordable and accessible form of transportation that facilitates the mobility of older adults in their communities. Age-friendly cities encourage and support physical activity and social participation among older adults; however, they often do not adequately...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6950044/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31817340 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16244916 |
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description | Background: Active transportation is an affordable and accessible form of transportation that facilitates the mobility of older adults in their communities. Age-friendly cities encourage and support physical activity and social participation among older adults; however, they often do not adequately address active transportation. Our goal was to identify and understand the constraints to active transportation that older adults experience in order to inform the development of viable solutions. Methods: Focus group interviews were conducted with community dwelling older adults (n = 52) living in the City of Oshawa in Ontario, Canada; each focus group targeted a specific demographic to ensure a diverse range of perspectives were represented. Data were analyzed to identify themes; sub-group analyses were conducted to understand the experience of those from low socioeconomic status and culturally diverse groups. Results: Themes pertaining to environmental, individual, and task constraints, as well as their interactions, were identified. Of particular novelty, seemingly non-modifiable constraints (e.g., weather and personal health) interacted with modifiable constraints (e.g., urban design). Culturally diverse and lower socioeconomic groups had more favorable perspectives of their neighborhoods. Conclusion: While constraints to active transportation interact to exacerbate one another, there is an opportunity to minimize or remove constraints by implementing age-friendly policies and practices. |
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spelling | pubmed-69500442020-01-13 Perspectives on Active Transportation in a Mid-Sized Age-Friendly City: “You Stay Home” Klicnik, Irmina Dogra, Shilpa Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Background: Active transportation is an affordable and accessible form of transportation that facilitates the mobility of older adults in their communities. Age-friendly cities encourage and support physical activity and social participation among older adults; however, they often do not adequately address active transportation. Our goal was to identify and understand the constraints to active transportation that older adults experience in order to inform the development of viable solutions. Methods: Focus group interviews were conducted with community dwelling older adults (n = 52) living in the City of Oshawa in Ontario, Canada; each focus group targeted a specific demographic to ensure a diverse range of perspectives were represented. Data were analyzed to identify themes; sub-group analyses were conducted to understand the experience of those from low socioeconomic status and culturally diverse groups. Results: Themes pertaining to environmental, individual, and task constraints, as well as their interactions, were identified. Of particular novelty, seemingly non-modifiable constraints (e.g., weather and personal health) interacted with modifiable constraints (e.g., urban design). Culturally diverse and lower socioeconomic groups had more favorable perspectives of their neighborhoods. Conclusion: While constraints to active transportation interact to exacerbate one another, there is an opportunity to minimize or remove constraints by implementing age-friendly policies and practices. MDPI 2019-12-05 2019-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6950044/ /pubmed/31817340 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16244916 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Klicnik, Irmina Dogra, Shilpa Perspectives on Active Transportation in a Mid-Sized Age-Friendly City: “You Stay Home” |
title | Perspectives on Active Transportation in a Mid-Sized Age-Friendly City: “You Stay Home” |
title_full | Perspectives on Active Transportation in a Mid-Sized Age-Friendly City: “You Stay Home” |
title_fullStr | Perspectives on Active Transportation in a Mid-Sized Age-Friendly City: “You Stay Home” |
title_full_unstemmed | Perspectives on Active Transportation in a Mid-Sized Age-Friendly City: “You Stay Home” |
title_short | Perspectives on Active Transportation in a Mid-Sized Age-Friendly City: “You Stay Home” |
title_sort | perspectives on active transportation in a mid-sized age-friendly city: “you stay home” |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6950044/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31817340 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16244916 |
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