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Title:

The Variety of the Golden Agers: Identifying Profiles of Older People for Mobility Research

Accession Number:

01472728

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

The increasing share of older people in the European population causes challenges for the future transportation system. Older people have specific, heterogeneous and varying requirements, which have to be considered enhancing their mobility options. Due to the fact, that “the typical elderly” does not exist, this work is focusing on the development of distinguishable and internally cohesive types of the older people for enabling the development of more customized solutions in mobility research. In order to do so different information sources and analysis methods (quantitative statistical analysis of a pan-European databases, qualitative analysis of literature, in-depth interviews of experts, workshops) have been applied in a multi-stage approach. In total, the following five profiles have been identified which differ in demographics, physical and mental state of health, life satisfaction, activities and social networks, mobility behavior, technology usage as well as in coping strategies after incisive live changing events: Fit as a Fiddle including the youngest and active elderly; Hole in the Heart describing older people with severe limitations in younger ages; Happily Connected comprising socially active elderly with high life satisfaction; Oldie but a Goodie including the quite old but independent and mobile; the Care-Full containing those who need a lot of care and are not able to manage their daily lives on their own. The profiles provide the basis for identifying current and future transport needs of older people in consideration of the heterogeneity in this population.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANB60 Safe Mobility of Older Persons.

Monograph Accession #:

01470560

Report/Paper Numbers:

13-3850

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Mandl, Bettina
Millonig, Alexandra
Friedl, Veronika

Pagination:

11p

Publication Date:

2013

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2013-1-13 to 2013-1-17
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Uncontrolled Terms:

Profiles; User needs; Well being

Geographic Terms:

Europe

Subject Areas:

Planning and Forecasting; Society; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2013 Paper #13-3850

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Feb 5 2013 12:45PM