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Transport, Travel and Later Life [Kietas viršelis]

Edited by (College of Human and Health Sciences, UK)
  • Formatas: Hardback, 248 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 229x152x15 mm, weight: 666 g
  • Serija: Transport and Sustainability
  • Išleidimo metai: 21-Nov-2017
  • Leidėjas: Emerald Publishing Limited
  • ISBN-10: 1787146243
  • ISBN-13: 9781787146242
  • Formatas: Hardback, 248 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 229x152x15 mm, weight: 666 g
  • Serija: Transport and Sustainability
  • Išleidimo metai: 21-Nov-2017
  • Leidėjas: Emerald Publishing Limited
  • ISBN-10: 1787146243
  • ISBN-13: 9781787146242
This book, set within a social gerontology and transport behaviour studies paradigm, examines current debates and issues around transport for older people and its relationship to health and wellbeing for individuals and society as a whole.

This book, set within a social gerontology and transport behaviour studies paradigm, examines current debates and issues around transport for older people and its relationship to health and wellbeing for individuals and society as a whole.

This timely title explores transport and travel needs and motivations of older people, barriers older people face using public and community transport, difficulties in accessing public spaces for walking and cycling. The safety of older drivers and recent advances in technology are also investigated.

Concluding by looking to the future in addressing digital cities, driverless cars and other changes in ICT that may affect older people and their travel behaviour, a variety of global perspectives examine the social aspects of mobility and transport from a psychological, sociological, and geographical perspective. This title will be of interest to those working with older people in the health and wellbeing sector, those involved in transport and town and country planning and academics examining gerontology and associated social science subjects.

Recenzijos

Scholars of geography and transport ponder complexities and trade-offs in transport policy regarding older people, who tend not be be safe drivers but whose quality of life plummets when they stop driving. Among their topics are older people's travel and its relationship to their health and wellbeing, old age: the main difficulties and vulnerabilities in the transport environment, creating a convivial public realm for an aging population: being a pedestrian and the built environment, cycling after 60, older driver needs and issues: using grounded theory to elicit the driving needs of older people, and virtual and imaginative mobility: how to bring the outside indoors and what happens when mobility is no longer available. -- Annotation ©2018 * (protoview.com) *

List Of Tables
ix
List Of Figures
xi
List Of Contributors
xv
Editor xvii
About The Authors xix
Preface xxiii
Introduction: Conceptualising Travel, Transport And Mobility For Older People 1(14)
Charles Musselwhite
Chapter 1 Older People's Travel And Its Relationship To Their Health And Wellbeing
15(22)
Roger Mackett
Chapter 2 Are Older People Safe Drivers On The Roads, Testing And Training?
37(28)
Kit Mitchell
Chapter 3 Old Age: What Are The Main Difficulties And Vulnerabilities In The Transport Environment?
65(28)
Deborah Mifsud
Maria Attard
Stephen Ison
Chapter 4 The Travel Needs Of Older People And What Happens When People Give-Up Driving
93(24)
Charles Musselwhite
Hebba Haddad
Chapter 5 Public And Community Transport
117(12)
Charles Musselwhite
Chapter 6 Creating A Convivial Public Realm For An Ageing Population. Being A Pedestrian And The Built Environment
129(10)
Charles Musselwhite
Chapter 7 Cycling Beyond Your Sixties: The Role Of Cycling In Later Life And How It Can Be Supported And Promoted
139(22)
Tim Jones
Kiron Chatterjee
Ben Spencer
Heather Jones
Chapter 8 Older Driver Needs And Issues: Using Grounded Theory To Elicit The Driving Needs Of Older People
161(10)
Charles Musselwhite
Hebba Haddad
Chapter 9 Technologies, Education And Training To Improve Older Driver Behaviour
171(26)
Charles Musselwhite
Chapter 10 Virtual And Imaginative Mobility: How Do We Bring The Outside Indoors And What Happens When Mobility Is No Longer Available?
197(10)
Charles Musselwhite
Chapter 11 Future Transport Technologies For An Ageing Society: Practice And Policy
207(14)
David Metz
Index 221
Dr Charles Musselwhite is Associate Professor in Gerontology at the Centre for Innovative Ageing (CIA) at Swansea University, UK, leading the Environments and Ageing research strand. His research interests involve ageing, travel and transport, addressing technological, environmental, health and sustainability contexts of transportation and built environment studies. Charles has advised the United Kingdom (UK) parliament on older peoples transport issues and is an Executive committee member of the British Society of Gerontology (BSG), where he is editor of their journal, Generations Review. He is an Associate Editor for Journal of Transport & Health and on the editorial board for Ageing and Society journal.