Ageing, social participation, and everyday mobility – Facilitating age-friendly environments
Due to the increasing share of older people worldwide, the United Nations has directed an initiative towards a ''decade of healthy ageing'' to promote ''age-friendly environments''. This study aims to gain a deeper understanding of how to promote social partic...
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| description | Due to the increasing share of older people worldwide, the United Nations has directed an initiative towards a ''decade of healthy ageing'' to promote ''age-friendly environments''. This study aims to gain a deeper understanding of how to promote social participation and everyday mobility in later life. The ambition is to increase the knowledge about how to create more age-friendly environments and social inclusion – for everyone. The study focuses on a social centre for older people in the municipality of Trelleborg in the south of Sweden. The social centre is located in an area with several retirement homes and hosts a variety of opportunities for social interaction for older people in combination with other services. The municipality also arranges free excursions for older people in the municipality departing from the social centre. Another initiative is a pilot project testing an autonomous bus outside of the social centre to ordinary public transport. The study includes observations, interviews with older people and officials, as well as travel-alongs. The results show that a combination of social participation and mobility can facilitate a more active everyday life for older people, increase social connectedness, and contribute to the creation of age-friendly environments. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-ee74e83d2a4644f08b540aaacba04f222025-08-20T01:58:24ZengElsevierJournal of Urban Mobility2667-09172024-12-01610009610.1016/j.urbmob.2024.100096Ageing, social participation, and everyday mobility – Facilitating age-friendly environmentsGustav López Svensson0Vanessa Stjernborg1Lund University, Department of Technology and Society, Box 117, 221 00, Lund, Sweden; K2 The Swedish Knowledge Center for Public Transport, Bruksgatan 8, 222 36, Lund, Sweden; Corresponding author.Lund University, Department of Technology and Society, Box 117, 221 00, Lund, Sweden; K2 The Swedish Knowledge Center for Public Transport, Bruksgatan 8, 222 36, Lund, SwedenDue to the increasing share of older people worldwide, the United Nations has directed an initiative towards a ''decade of healthy ageing'' to promote ''age-friendly environments''. This study aims to gain a deeper understanding of how to promote social participation and everyday mobility in later life. The ambition is to increase the knowledge about how to create more age-friendly environments and social inclusion – for everyone. The study focuses on a social centre for older people in the municipality of Trelleborg in the south of Sweden. The social centre is located in an area with several retirement homes and hosts a variety of opportunities for social interaction for older people in combination with other services. The municipality also arranges free excursions for older people in the municipality departing from the social centre. Another initiative is a pilot project testing an autonomous bus outside of the social centre to ordinary public transport. The study includes observations, interviews with older people and officials, as well as travel-alongs. The results show that a combination of social participation and mobility can facilitate a more active everyday life for older people, increase social connectedness, and contribute to the creation of age-friendly environments.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667091724000268Social inclusionTransportOlder peopleHealthWellbeingAutonomous bus |
| spellingShingle | Gustav López Svensson Vanessa Stjernborg Ageing, social participation, and everyday mobility – Facilitating age-friendly environments Journal of Urban Mobility Social inclusion Transport Older people Health Wellbeing Autonomous bus |
| title | Ageing, social participation, and everyday mobility – Facilitating age-friendly environments |
| title_full | Ageing, social participation, and everyday mobility – Facilitating age-friendly environments |
| title_fullStr | Ageing, social participation, and everyday mobility – Facilitating age-friendly environments |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ageing, social participation, and everyday mobility – Facilitating age-friendly environments |
| title_short | Ageing, social participation, and everyday mobility – Facilitating age-friendly environments |
| title_sort | ageing social participation and everyday mobility facilitating age friendly environments |
| topic | Social inclusion Transport Older people Health Wellbeing Autonomous bus |
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