Marquet Oriol, Miralles-Guasch Carme
Department of Geography, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.
Department of Geography ICTA (Institute for Science and Environmental Technology), Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.
Soc Sci Med. 2015 Jun;135:24-30. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.04.016. Epub 2015 Apr 22.
This study investigated whether neighbourhood vitality and walkability were associated with active ageing of the elderly. Immobility, activity engagement and physical activity were explored in relation with age, gender and walkability of the built environment. Number of trips per day and minutes spent on walking by the elderly were extracted from a broad travel survey with more than 12,000 CATI interviews and were compared across vital and non-vital urban environments. Results highlight the importance of vital environments for elderly active mobility as subpopulations residing in highly walkable neighbourhoods undertook more trips and spent more minutes walking than their counterparts. The results also suggest that the built environment has different effects in terms of gender, as elderly men were more susceptible to urban vitality than elderly women.
本研究调查了社区活力和步行便利性是否与老年人的积极老龄化相关。探讨了行动不便、活动参与和身体活动与年龄、性别以及建成环境的步行便利性之间的关系。通过一项包含超过12000次计算机辅助电话调查（CATI）的广泛出行调查，提取了老年人每天的出行次数和步行时间，并在充满活力和缺乏活力的城市环境中进行了比较。结果凸显了活力环境对老年人积极出行的重要性，因为居住在步行便利性高的社区的亚群体比其他社区的同龄人出行次数更多，步行时间更长。结果还表明，建成环境在性别方面有不同影响，老年男性比老年女性更容易受到城市活力的影响。
