Urban green spaces for elderly human health: A planning model for healthy city living

Md. Julfikar Ali, Mohidur Rahaman and Sk. Iqbal Hossain

Land Use Policy, 2022, vol. 114, issue C

Abstract: Green space is considered as the lungs of the city. It has immense health benefits mainly for elderly people. Regular physical activity in green space considerably reduces health risk of cardiovascular disease, respiratory problems, high blood pressure, paralysis, diabetes and other chronic diseases. Besides, it facilitates social interactions and promotes the sense of community among the citizens, which is very important for health and wellbeing of people, especially for elderly, because they predominantly suffer from the social isolation problem. The data on self-perceived health status have been obtained while surveying the green space users through survey schedule. About 92.65% of elderly sampled of those people who are reportedly affected by any of such diseases or a combination of multiple. Similarly, in Australia 85–90% of diabetes problems was found among the elderly. UGS benefits must be universal and this can be done through the universalization of its accessibility. This paper answers the questions as, Whether or not the health risk of NCD make elderly people necessary for visiting and using the green space? Whether or not the visit and use of park consequences better preconception on NCD related physical and psychological health? What factors restrict and motivate them to visit the green space? What would be the appropriate planning approach for making it available for neighbourhood residents? The paper finally proposes a participatory, bottom-up planning model as a planning toolkit.

Keywords: Urban green space; Physical activity; Elderly health; Non-communicable diseases (NCDs); Healthy city living, Bottom-up planning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105970

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