17
views
0
recommends
+1 Recommend
0 collections
    0
    shares
      • Record: found
      • Abstract: found
      • Book Chapter: found
      Is Open Access
      Social Exclusion in Later Life : Interdisciplinary and Policy Perspectives 

      Beyond Accessibility: Transport Systems as a Societal Structure Supporting Inclusion in Late-Life

      other
      Springer International Publishing

      Read this book at

      Buy book Bookmark
          There is no author summary for this book yet. Authors can add summaries to their books on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

          Abstract

          Mobility is associated with well-being, and an age-inclusive transport system is a prerequisite for satisfactory mobility throughout the life course. Yet a transport system – including the physical characteristics of environments, planning processes, design, and policies – involves more than allowing people and goods to move from one location to another. Rather, it is an arena of everyday life, related not only to direct service accessibility but also to wider social inclusion. If the structures surrounding late life transport mobility can match the changing needs of older adults in a changing society, they have the potential for supporting good ageing and social inclusion. Accessibility problems can be targeted through single-domain interventions, such as online shopping, telemedicine and care at home. However, targeting the loss of social inclusion caused by lack of transportation requires a broader understanding of transport as a social structure. This chapter reviews the scholarship on the links between transport mobility, well-being and social inclusion or exclusion. To demonstrate the mismatch between individual aspirations and surrounding structures, it revisits the concept of “structural lag” from the transport perspective. It also gives an overview of knowledge gaps related to transport and social inclusion or exclusion in late life.

          Related collections

          Most cited references52

          • Record: found
          • Abstract: not found
          • Article: not found

          Assessment of Older People: Self-Maintaining and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living

            Bookmark
            • Record: found
            • Abstract: not found
            • Article: not found

            Choice of Travel Mode in the Theory of Planned Behavior: The Roles of Past Behavior, Habit, and Reasoned Action

              Bookmark
              • Record: found
              • Abstract: not found
              • Article: not found

              A strategy for active ageing

                Bookmark

                Author and book information

                Book Chapter
                2021
                March 31 2021
                : 327-338
                10.1007/978-3-030-51406-8_25
                150e0317-da97-4575-99af-da182cdfaaf5
                History

                Comments

                Comment on this book

                Book chapters

                Similar content20

                Cited by1