Accessibility of welfare facilities for elderly people in Daejeon, South Korea considering public transportation accessibility

Cho, Hyemin; Choi, Junyong; No, Wonjun; Oh, M.; Kim, Young Chul

doi:10.1016/j.trip.2021.100514

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“…Accessibility assessment is one of the main methods of research on the rationality of the spatial distribution [26][27][28], which is widely used in the layout evaluation of public service facilities, such as education, medical treatment, elderly care facilities, parks, and green spaces [29,30]. Countries that also face serious aging problems, such as Japan [31,32], South Korea [33], Finland [34], and the United States [35,36], have also attracted extensive attention from scholars to study the accessibility of public service facilities. With the development of new urban science, multi-source data provide important support for evaluating the accessibility of elderly care facilities [37], such as POI (point of interest) [38][39][40], street-view images [41][42][43][44], smart cards [45], and mobile phones [46].…”

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Study on Spatial Distribution Equilibrium of Elderly Care Facilities in Downtown Shanghai

Huang

Gong

White

2022

IJERPH

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With the growing challenge of aging populations around the world, the study of the care services for older adults is an essential initiative to accommodate the particular needs of the disadvantaged communities and promote social equity. Based on open-source data and the geographic information system (GIS), this paper quantifies and visualizes the imbalance in the spatial distribution of elderly care facilities in 14,578 neighborhoods in downtown (seven districts) Shanghai, China. Eight types of elderly care facilities were obtained from Shanghai elderly care service platform, divided into two categories according to their service scale. With the introduction of the improved Gaussian 2-step floating catchment area method, the accessibility of two category facilities was calculated. Through the global autocorrelation analysis, it is found that the accessibility of elderly care facilities has the characteristics of spatial agglomeration. Local autocorrelation analysis indicates the cold and hot spots in the accessibility agglomeration state of the two types of facilities, by which we summarized the characteristics of their spatial heterogeneity. It is found that for Category−Ⅰ, there is a large range of hot spots in Huangpu District. For Category−Ⅱ, the hot-spot and cold-spot areas show staggered distribution, and the two categories of hot spot distribution show a negative correlation. We conclude that the two categories are not evenly distributed in the urban area, which will lead to the low efficiency of resource allocation of elderly care facilities and have a negative impact on social fairness. This research offers a systematic method to study urban access to care services for older adults as well as a new perspective on improving social fairness.

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Study on Spatial Distribution Equilibrium of Elderly Care Facilities in Downtown Shanghai

Huang

Gong

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2022

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“…Having easily reachable public transportation is essential in neighborhoods designed for older adults (Bhuyan et al, 2020). Improved accessibility is attained by minimizing the distance to public transport amenities (Cho et al, 2021). Furthermore, improving accessible public transportation and promoting independent mobility can help alleviate social exclusion among the elderly, representing a notable aspect of age-friendly neighborhoods (Al-Rashid et al, 2023).…”

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Age-Inclusive Transit Environments: An Exploration of Public Transportation Systems for Elderly

Zakaria,

Kamaluddin,

Hashim

et al. 2024

E-BPJ

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The rising elderly population and rapid urban development have given rise to many interconnected challenges demanding transformative changes in the living environments to facilitate improved mobility and accessibility for the elderly. These issues encompass insufficient accessibility and infrastructure that do not cater to the needs of the elderly. This research explores the public transportation facilities in urban areas, encompassing infrastructure, services, and amenities that are accessible to the public and designed to facilitate community mobility and to identify the current facilities in public transportation and assess how effective and accessible they are for the elderly population.

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“…It can be used to define accessibility calculations within a region. The 2SFCA method is well known for its use in health service planning in developed countries [47][48][49], and it has also been explored in developing countries [50]. Typically, three factors are critical to measuring the spatial accessibility of public facilities resources: facility supply capacity, the number of people served, and geographic impediments between points of supply and demand [40].…”

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Equity Evaluation of Elderly-Care Institutions Based on Ga2SFCA: The Case Study of Jinan, China

Jin,

Deng,

Wang

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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With the deepening trend of aging, the issue of elderly care for the aging population has become a matter of concern for all sectors of society. Elderly-care services have become increasingly vital. Elderly-care institutions, a major component of the elderly-care system, are an important part of public facility resource provision; the spatial distribution of elderly-care institutions (ECIs) directly affects the equitable access of the elderly to public resources. To cope with the current pressure of population aging and limited resources for the elderly, this study aims to explore the relationship between population aging and the supply of ECIs in Jinan, China. Using the ArcGIS platform, this study analyzes the spatial allocation of ECIs, provides improved supply capacity modelling of ECIs based on the Gaussian Two-Step Floating Catchment Area Approach (Ga2SFCA), and evaluates the equity of ECIs in terms of accessibility, supply–demand equity, and spatial equity. The results show that there are large differences in spatial accessibility between different levels of ECIs, there is a mismatch of supply and demand, the number and size of existing ECIs do not meet the needs of the elderly, and the distribution of resources in small ECIs is highly inequitable. These results can provide a guiding direction for optimizing ECIs and urban road network planning and can also provide new insights for urban planners to assess the equity of public service facilities.

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Accessibility of welfare facilities for elderly people in Daejeon, South Korea considering public transportation accessibility

Cited by 12 publications

References 27 publications

Study on Spatial Distribution Equilibrium of Elderly Care Facilities in Downtown Shanghai

Study on Spatial Distribution Equilibrium of Elderly Care Facilities in Downtown Shanghai

Age-Inclusive Transit Environments: An Exploration of Public Transportation Systems for Elderly

Equity Evaluation of Elderly-Care Institutions Based on Ga2SFCA: The Case Study of Jinan, China

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