Research Group of Urban Ageing, Centre of Expertise Health Innovation, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Johanna Westerdijkplein 75, 2521 EN Den Haag, The Netherlands.
Faculty of Social Work & Education, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Johanna Westerdijkplein 75, 2521 EN Den Haag, The Netherlands.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Mar 26;19(7):3960. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19073960.
The sense of safety and security of older people is a widely acknowledged action domain for policy and practice in age-friendly cities. Despite an extensive body of knowledge on the matter, the theory is fragmented, and a classification is lacking. Therefore, this study investigated how older people experience the sense of safety and security in an age-friendly city. A total of four focus group sessions were organised in The Hague comprising 38 older people. Based on the outcomes of the sessions, the sense of safety and security was classified into two main domains: a sense of safety and security impacted by intentional acts and negligence (for instance, burglary and violence), and a sense of safety and security impacted by non-intentional acts (for instance, incidents, making mistakes online). Both domains manifest into three separate contexts, namely the home environment, the outdoor environment and traffic and the digital environment. In the discussions with older people on these derived domains, ideas for potential improvements and priorities were also explored, which included access to information on what older people can do themselves to improve their sense of safety and security, the enforcement of rules, and continuous efforts to develop digital skills to improve safety online.
老年人的安全感和安全保障是建设友好型城市的政策和实践中公认的重要领域。尽管在这方面已经有了广泛的知识体系，但理论仍然是零散的，缺乏分类。因此，本研究调查了老年人在友好型城市中是如何体验安全感和安全保障的。在海牙共组织了四次包含 38 名老年人的焦点小组会议。根据会议的结果，安全感和安全保障被分为两个主要领域：一是由故意行为和疏忽（如盗窃和暴力）影响的安全感和安全保障；二是由非故意行为（如事故、网上犯错）影响的安全感和安全保障。这两个领域都表现为三个不同的方面，即家庭环境、户外环境和交通以及数字环境。在与老年人讨论这些衍生领域时，还探讨了潜在的改进和优先事项，包括提供有关老年人可以自己采取哪些措施来提高安全感和安全保障的信息、执行规则以及不断努力提高数字技能以提高在线安全性。
