“Who Doesn’t Think about Technology When Designing Urban Environments for Older People?” A Case Study Approach to a Proposed Extension of the WHO’s Age-Friendly Cities Model

Marston, Hannah R.; Hoof, Joost van

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“…They found that personal safety, amenities, open space, and the proximity to health care services are highly valued by older people [47]. Marston and van Hoof [48] (2019) proposed an extension of the WHO's age-friendly cities model with incorporating the domain of technology when designing urban environments. Previous research concluded that an age-friendly community has various dimensions, including physical environment, housing conditions, social environment, accessibility to activities, formal and informal support, health care, transport, and social interactions [49][50][51][52][53].…”

Section: Age-friendly Communitymentioning

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“…Previous research concluded that an age-friendly community has various dimensions, including physical environment, housing conditions, social environment, accessibility to activities, formal and informal support, health care, transport, and social interactions [49][50][51][52][53]. Building age-friendly physical spaces and environments is essential to facilitate older people having successful ageing-in-place [48]. In terms of social environment, a considerable number of studies supported that social engagement in communities were positively correlated with the quality of life of older people [54][55][56][57][58].…”

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Older People’s Perception of Changes in Their Living Environment after Relocation: A Case Study in Beijing, China

Gao

Cheng

2020

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Beijing has been experiencing population ageing and rapid urbanization processes. Older people's living environment has changed dramatically. This research aims to understand the older people's perception of the changes in their living environment, the determinants of age-friendly living environment, and the impact path before and after their relocation in Beijing. The quantitative analysis is based on 353 valid questionnaires collected in four sample communities in Beijing. By using descriptive analysis and structure equation modeling (SEM), the results show that the living environment gets improved after relocation except accessibility to health care facilities. The cultural environment of the communities has significant impacts on the age-friendliness of the living environment. The physical environment of communities is able to improve the living environment indirectly through promoting the community cultural environment. This study sheds light on future research on age-friendly living environment for the ageing population in Beijing. conditions had a significant direct effect on the community environment (0.27), and the improvement 339 in living conditions can improve the perception of the community environment. As for the 340 community-built environment, the result showed that the community-built environment had no 341 significant direct effect on the general perceptions of the changes in community environment.342 However, the improvement in the built environment had a significant indirect impact on the 343 perceptions of changes in community environment, through facilitating older people's interpersonal 344 communication (0.16) and the recreational activities in the community (0.48). This result implied that 345 the built environment indirectly improved the community environment in general by improving 346 residents' perceptions of the social cultural environment. With regard to the accessibility to services, 347 although no significant association was found between the accessibility to services and overall 348 perceptions of community environments in this model, this path was kept showing possible relations349 which are supposed by previous research. The next two variables are interpersonal communication 350 and community recreational activities, which can be seen as components of community cultural 351 environment. The result showed that the improvement of interpersonal communication significantly 352 promotes the general community environment (0.37). Recreational activities could both significantly 353 directly influence the perception of overall community environment (0.29), and indirectly promote 354 the community environment through affecting interpersonal communication (0.07). In addition, the 355 improvements in the accessibility to information on policies (0.17) had a direct positive influence on 356 the perception of community environment. Indirectly, accessibility to information (0.17) was able to 357 improve the overall perception of the community environment by promoting community health 358 se...

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Section: Age-friendly Communitymentioning

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Section: Age-friendly Communitymentioning

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Older People’s Perception of Changes in Their Living Environment after Relocation: A Case Study in Beijing, China

Gao

Cheng

2020

IJERPH

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“…However, as we enter our third decade of the twenty-first century, academe and industry have been slow to diversify their scholarly activities and to broaden their interest regarding this medium and how videogames impact on the lives of Generation X within society. It could be asked why Generation X should be given special attention, particularly when Millennials now play a prominent role in society; however, given the national and international interests of governments relating to longevity (social) loneliness and active and healthy ageing (Marston and van Hoof 2019), exploring and investigating the issues, needs and requirements of future ageing populations is crucial, particularly when respective cohorts reach old age.…”

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Defeating the Boss Level … Exploring Inter-and-Multigenerational Gaming Experiences

Marston

Azadvar

2020

Comput Game J

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“…As Drury et al [120] suggests, people live in an increasingly age-segregated society [120]. Knowledge needs to be synthesized in order to understand which strategies are effective to uncover and reduce ageist attitudes, as well as whether digital technological interventions such as YouTube, Facebook, and videogames [5,7,121,122] may help positive intergenerational communication, as noted by Marston and van Hoof [123] across age-friendly cities and communities. Policy makers will benefit from learning about these strategies to break the age segregation/ageism cycle.…”

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The Teletalker – A Design Researcher’s Tool to Explore Intergenerational Online Video Connectivity in-the-Wild

Markowski

2020

Societies

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Although a fair amount of research around older adults’ perception of digital technology exists, there is only a moderate amount of research investigating older people’s reactions and sense-making in real-world contexts with emerging digital tools. This paper reports on the constructivist research approach used by the author, which initiated co-production with participants to gather older and younger adults’ reactions towards digital video connectivity during a series of design research interventions. For this, the author had built a research tool, the Teletalker kiosks (TT), which connected two locations using digital live video to provide a ‘window into the other space’. Participants, if they wished, could activate the volume with a designed mechanism aimed at non-computer literate people, which was used in order to speak to each other. The three connections were between an older people’s charity day centre and the university, between two locations at the university, and between two-day centres in the U.K. The returns collected revealed overall positive reactions towards video connectivity by younger adults and mixed reactions by older adults. The design for the volume mechanism did not work as expected for both groups. The interventions also brought out opinions and conformity dynamics within groups of older adults and attitudes by younger audiences towards older people. More research is needed to understand these reactions and attitudes in comparable contexts.

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“Who Doesn’t Think about Technology When Designing Urban Environments for Older People?” A Case Study Approach to a Proposed Extension of the WHO’s Age-Friendly Cities Model

Cited by 85 publications

References 81 publications

Older People’s Perception of Changes in Their Living Environment after Relocation: A Case Study in Beijing, China

Older People’s Perception of Changes in Their Living Environment after Relocation: A Case Study in Beijing, China

Defeating the Boss Level … Exploring Inter-and-Multigenerational Gaming Experiences

The Teletalker – A Design Researcher’s Tool to Explore Intergenerational Online Video Connectivity in-the-Wild

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