Walking distances from services and destinations for residential aged-care centres in Australian cities

Peiman Amini-Behbahani, Li Meng and Ning Gu

Journal of Transport Geography, 2020, vol. 85, issue C

Abstract: Aged-care centres are one of the common places used by the older Australian population as their residence. While these centres provide many health supports and assistance for the well-being of the residents, there are still many health benefits for this population by walking in the environment outside the centre, because of the positive effect of walking on health and the opportunities it provides for social interaction. However, to choose walking is dependent on several factors, some of which pertain to the availability of and accessibility to the facilities around the care centres. This paper has approached accessibility as a matter of walking distance to the facilities or services, or to the public transport with potential access to them.

Keywords: Aged care; Planning and design; Accessibility; Walking distance; GIS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2020.102707

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