Population Aging And Age Friendly Transport In China
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| Author | : Pengjun Zhao |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 263 |
| Release | : 2023-01-31 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9811992436 |
This book is the first book that investigates aging and its impacts on transport system in China. Using various data, this book covers, but is not limited to, the development of population aging, the changes of travel demand, the features of travel behavior of China’s elderly, progress and prospect of age-friendly transport in China. The book has international academic novelty in three points. Firstly, it discovers the long-term supply-demand relationship between population aging and transport infrastructure development. Secondly, it finds the changes and factors in travel behavior of the elderly people. Thirdly, it discusses the advantages or disadvantages of age-friendly transport policy. The findings in the book provide fresh evidences for the challenges posed by aging to transport and enhance readers’ existing knowledge of the elderly people’s travel behavior and the related determinants. These findings are helpful for planners and politicians to make age-friendly transport policies and useful for investors and enterprises to supply proper transport services to the elderly people. This book is of great interest to scholars and practitioners interested in transport development, transport policy, social transition, sustainable mobility, urban planning, urban governance and is relevant to China and other developing countries.
| Author | : Najibullah Habib |
| Publisher | : Asian Development Bank |
| Total Pages | : 169 |
| Release | : 2020-12-01 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 9292624784 |
Rapid urbanization and aging in many countries including the People’s Republic of China, along with lessons learned from the coronavirus disease pandemic, emphasize the urgent need to make cities healthier and more accessible for the elderly. This report offers an operational framework to turn the challenges of an emerging four-generation urban society into opportunities. Health impact assessments as well as healthy and age-friendly city action and management plans are proposed as holistic tools to create positive health outcomes and improve urban livability, services, and public spaces. Integrated with urban planning, these practical tools will help make cleaner, healthier, and safer cities that are more pleasant and competitive for people, business and economic development.
| Author | : Jacqueline Chan |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2017-01-26 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781361029121 |
This dissertation, "Enhancing Outdoor Mobility for Active Ageing in Hong Kong: Prospects and Challenges" by Jacqueline, Chan, 陳昭彤, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Population ageing is a global phenomenon which has a far-reaching impact on social and economics perspectives. It is also one of the greatest challenges towards future policy planning and development. Active ageing is established as a strategy in response to the ageing population. According to the World Health Organization, active ageing is recognized as the process of optimizing opportunities for health, participation and security in order to enhance the quality of life as people age. Many international cities have incorporated the principle of active ageing in their policies formation and implementation. This is with the vision to achieve a goal of maintaining autonomy and independency when people grow old. Moreover, ageing-in-place has been considered as a crucial factor to achieve active ageing. According to recent studies, "Ageing-in-place" is defined as remaining active and mobile in the community and thus enabling the elderly to maintain independence, autonomy, and connection to social support. From this perspective, the study attempts to examine the prospects and challenges of enhancing mobility among the older adults by means of a survey conducted to obtain the views and perceptions of the elderly on their neighborhood environment and public transport services. The neighborhood environment features with more social connections can mobilize the older people. Meanwhile, an age-friendly public transport system can facilitate the elderly to remain attached to their society and ageing-in-place. The set of data are further analyzed to identify the limitations the elderly are experienced and explore possible measures to improve the current situation in regarding to the built neighborhood environment as well as transport services, and thus to encourage them to participate in the community actively through enhancing their mobility. The study results provide some insights for future transport policies making as well. Subjects: Older people - Transportation - China - Hong Kong
| Author | : Sheying Chen |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2012-02-02 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 1441983511 |
China, which is fast on its way to becoming the most powerful economic force in the world, has four unique characteristics that distinguish it from other countries in Asia: (1) The proportion of aging population is growing faster than that of Japan (the country previously recognized as having the fastest rate) and much faster than nations in western Europe. (2) An early arrival of an aging population before modernization has fully taken place, with social policy implications. It is certain that China will face a severely aged population before it has sufficient time and resources to establish an adequate social security and service system for older people. (3) There will be fluctuations in the total dependency ratio. The Chinese government estimates are that the country will reach a higher dependent burden earlier in the twenty-first century than was previously forecast. (4) The government’s fertility policy (single child per family) and its implementation has a strong influence on the aging process. Fewer children are being born, but with more elderly people a conflict arises between the objectives to limit population increase and yet maintain a balanced age structure (Peng and Guo 2001). The intersection of these fourfold factors means that the increased aging population is giving rise to serious concerns among Chinese social policy makers. There is a chronic lack of good resource materials that attempt to make sense of social policy in its relationship to examining the problems and possibilities of human aging grounded in an analysis of economic of social policy in China and impact on rural and urban spaces. Such analysis of China will be covered by conceptual, theoretical, and empirical approaches. The book will also discuss substantive topics of housing, community care, family care, pensions, and mental health. The book brings together a truly world class array of researchers to provide discussions of critical implications of aging social policy and the economic impact in China.
| Author | : Judith Banister |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 52 |
| Release | : 1988 |
| Genre | : China |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Jason L. Powell |
| Publisher | : Nova Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 172 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 9781600217500 |
The first part of the book is entitled 'Family, Transition and Ageing' and addresses rapid social and economic changes in China through a kaleidoscope of differential perspectives that focus on how family continues to be an important reference point for the past, present and future institution in the care of older people. The second part of the book focuses on the tangible social forces associated with managing old age: 'Welfare, Consumption and Ageing'. This section is important in locating the structures and agents of power that are relevant to maintaining trust and social relations between older people, the Chinese State and its dualism of state welfare and consumption of welfare.
| Author | : Angela Curl |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2018-04-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 3319763601 |
This book presents a unique geographical perspective on issues of transport and mobility for ageing populations. Society is ageing across the globe. As well as living longer, older people are fitter, healthier and more active than previous generations were. There is both a desire and a need to be mobile in later life and mobility is clearly linked to older people’s health and wellbeing. Yet mobility can be hard for older people and we don’t always design our neighbourhoods, towns, cities and villages in an age friendly way. With case studies from across the globe, authors take a geographical lens to the important topic of transport and mobility in later life. Chapters examine how the relationships between mobility, modes of transport, place and technologies affect an aging population. This collection will be of interest to scholars and students in human geography, in particular those with interests in transport geography, mobilities, geographies of health and wellbeing, urban geographies and geographical gerontology. It will also appeal to practitioners and policy makers in urban design and planning, transport planning and engineering and public health who have interests in age-friendly cities and policy.
| Author | : Fang Cai |
| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 171 |
| Release | : 2012-03-20 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0821389033 |
This book examines the well-being of China's rural elderly in the context of a rapidly aging population. Traditional sources of support are coming under strain with population aging and the migration of youth, making it imperative that pension coverage be extended to the rural population.
| Author | : Yi Zeng |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 438 |
| Release | : 2008-01-10 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1402067526 |
Key research in the world’s largest aging population – in China – has fed into this important new work, which aims to answer questions critical to older people worldwide. These include: is the period of disability compressing or expanding with increasing life expectancy and what factors are associated with these trends in the recent decades? And is it possible to realize morbidity compression with a prolongation of the life span in the future? Essential reading for gerontologists.
| Author | : Linya Cheng |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 57 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
With the increasing population of the elders in China, many social challenges arise. To make travel easier for the elderly, new technology can be used to increase transportation services. This thesis will use successful cases around the world as examples and conclude with useful planning and design approaches to use in Beijing. Based on the successful cases, I created a survey to learn about the kind of technology and services that are preferred by seniors in Beijing. The main focus of this thesis is on how to improve senior-friendly transportation services in Beijing. First, the literature review will introduce how emerging new services affect seniors’ lifestyles, and the successful examples in other cities or countries. After this, it is necessary to learn what the elders’ specific travel needs in Beijing are by collecting survey responses —and then answer how transportation agencies should implement mobility services for the elderly. Last, I make recommendations regarding how to fill the elderly care services gap through new technology. The thesis is based on a mixed-research method. At first, I took the results from previous studies to identify senior-friendly transportation services. I included and analyzed successful examples and considered how to learn from these successes in Beijing. I created hypotheses of which kind of services would be most helpful to the elders. After that, I used a survey to determine the elders’ transportation preferences, understand their needs, and to rank the order of importance of the alternative services. I analyzed the survey results and based on the research, provided some suggestions about adding supporting facilities to public transportation systems, and some new technology, such as autonomous driving, as a future trend of senior-friendly transportation system. Additionally, door-to-door services for helping seniors travel in Beijing are highly desirable, and thus a community shuttle bus is an excellent service to consider.
