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Using Community-Based Research Strategies in Age-Friendly Communities to Solve Mobility Challenges
Aging is linked to an increased risk of disability. Disabilities that limit major life activities such as seeing, walking, and motor skills impact a person’s ability to drive a car. Low utilization of alternative transportation by older adults may put them at risk for social isolation. The purpose o...
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2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7743034/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2462 |
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author | Dabelko-Schoeny, Holly Fields, Noelle White, Katie Sheldon, Marisa Robinson, Sarah Murphy, Ian Jennings, Claire |
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description | Aging is linked to an increased risk of disability. Disabilities that limit major life activities such as seeing, walking, and motor skills impact a person’s ability to drive a car. Low utilization of alternative transportation by older adults may put them at risk for social isolation. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how community-based participatory research (CBPR) was used to engage older residents in the development of alternative transportation options in a metropolitan county in the Midwestern U.S. Older residents worked as co-investigators to develop, use and evaluate alternative transportation options including walking, biking, fixed route busing, senior circulator, ride sharing, and transit training. Data were collected through mapping the built environment, an electronic daily transportation diary app called “MyAmble” on tablets, walk audits and focus groups. CBPR approaches led by interdisciplinary teams resulted in community engagement and more equitable strategies for transportation planning and utilization. |
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spelling | pubmed-77430342020-12-21 Using Community-Based Research Strategies in Age-Friendly Communities to Solve Mobility Challenges Dabelko-Schoeny, Holly Fields, Noelle White, Katie Sheldon, Marisa Robinson, Sarah Murphy, Ian Jennings, Claire Innov Aging Abstracts Aging is linked to an increased risk of disability. Disabilities that limit major life activities such as seeing, walking, and motor skills impact a person’s ability to drive a car. Low utilization of alternative transportation by older adults may put them at risk for social isolation. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how community-based participatory research (CBPR) was used to engage older residents in the development of alternative transportation options in a metropolitan county in the Midwestern U.S. Older residents worked as co-investigators to develop, use and evaluate alternative transportation options including walking, biking, fixed route busing, senior circulator, ride sharing, and transit training. Data were collected through mapping the built environment, an electronic daily transportation diary app called “MyAmble” on tablets, walk audits and focus groups. CBPR approaches led by interdisciplinary teams resulted in community engagement and more equitable strategies for transportation planning and utilization. Oxford University Press 2020-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7743034/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2462 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Abstracts Dabelko-Schoeny, Holly Fields, Noelle White, Katie Sheldon, Marisa Robinson, Sarah Murphy, Ian Jennings, Claire Using Community-Based Research Strategies in Age-Friendly Communities to Solve Mobility Challenges |
title | Using Community-Based Research Strategies in Age-Friendly Communities to Solve Mobility Challenges |
title_full | Using Community-Based Research Strategies in Age-Friendly Communities to Solve Mobility Challenges |
title_fullStr | Using Community-Based Research Strategies in Age-Friendly Communities to Solve Mobility Challenges |
title_full_unstemmed | Using Community-Based Research Strategies in Age-Friendly Communities to Solve Mobility Challenges |
title_short | Using Community-Based Research Strategies in Age-Friendly Communities to Solve Mobility Challenges |
title_sort | using community-based research strategies in age-friendly communities to solve mobility challenges |
topic | Abstracts |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7743034/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2462 |
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