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Toward an age-friendly city
— the constraints preventing the elderly's participation in community programs in Akita city | | Author(s) | Yoshihiko Kadoya |
| Journal title | Working with Older People, vol 17, no 3, 2013 |
| Publisher | Emerald Publishers, 2013 |
| Pages | pp 101-108 |
| Source | www.emeraldinsight.com |
| Keywords | Urban areas ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Participation ; Quantitative studies ; Japan. |
| Annotation | The inclusion of older people in community life is a major factor in achieving an age-friendly city; but there has been little research investigating the constraints preventing their interaction with society. With that in mind, this paper is pioneering the investigation of such constraints. It uses results from the Questionnaire towards an Age-Friendly City by Japan's Akita City, a member of the World Health Organization (WHO)'s Global Network of Age-friendly Cities and Communities. The paper reveals two constraining factors. First, living solo discourages older people to interact with society. Second, older people who cannot drive a car tend to be reluctant to participate in social activities. To be age-friendly in ways that encourage older people to participate in community life, municipalities may apply the following "implementations for practice": implementing regular visits to older people who live alone; giving young people some incentives (e.g. tax reductions) to live with their aged parents/relatives; increasing the number of community buses in order to encourage older people to go out; and increasing community taxis by deregulating the industry. This paper contributes significantly to the study of older people's inclusion in community life, which is a major component of an age-friendly city. Although little research has analysed the constraints preventing the elderly's social interaction due to data limitations, this pioneering paper identifies at least some of the constraints. This research can help to improve the health and wellbeing of older people in our society, and it can help to create more age-friendly cities. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-130906226 A |
| Classmark | RK: TOB: TMB: 3DQ: 7DT |
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