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Ageing in a low-density urban city
— transportation mobility as a social equity issue | | Author(s) | Gail Adorno, Noelle Fields, Courtney Cronley |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 38, no 2, February 2018 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, February 2018 |
| Pages | pp 296-320 |
| Source | http://www.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Transport services ; Mobility ; Economic status [elderly] ; Urban areas ; Quantitative studies ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The authors examine older people's experiences and perspectives of transport mobility. In this community-based participatory research study, 15 residents of Arlington, Texas aged 55+ participated in individual interviews, or one of six focus groups (N = 45) as part of an overall study about ageing well in a large ethnically diverse city in the United States of America. Thematic analysis was conducted using inductive and deductive qualitative methods and social equity as a sensitising concept. Findings indicate that transport-disadvantaged older people experience limited access to health care, goods and services; and they are isolated from familiar lifestyle habits and social networks. Access to affordable, adequate transport is compromised through social and political forces, which marginalise historically disadvantaged populations. Implications for cross-disciplinary practice and future research on sustainable transport and policy development are discussed within a social justice and social equity framework. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180209203 A |
| Classmark | O: C4: F:W: RK: 3DQ: 7T |
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