LEC5,6: Age-Friendly Environments Flashcards
Define Age Friendly Environments
An environment that supports the health and wellbeing of senior populations
Define City
A spatial scale (this is a way geographical units a categorised), between a
neighbourhood and a province (state) that is usually densely populated with boundaries that are administratively defined .
Urban Environment is made up of:
Socio-economic environment, natural environment, built environment
Is aging a problem?
Biological lens
- Accumulation of cellular and molecular damage
- Leading to physical and mental capacity
- Correlating loosely with age
Social lens
- Resources of experience
- Support for families, communities, and economies
- Leadership presence
Worldwide, _________ people are over the age of 60 today
901 million
By 2030 about ______ of the worlds population will be in this
group (over the age of 60)
17%
Older adults use far more _______________ than do younger groups (Americans Institute of Medicine, 2008)
health care services
2016 to 2021, the number of Canadians age 65 and older rose ________to seven million, the second-largest increase in 75 years StatsCan
18.3 per cent
By 2036, seniors will account for __________ Canadians
one in four (25%)
City Council’s Seniors Declaration affirms that:
● Individuals are respected regardless of age. All generations have much to teach and learn from each other.
● People of all ages are safe in their homes and neighbourhoods. Safety has physical, environmental, financial and health aspects.
● The City ’s transportation systems, urban design and physical infrastructure allow all people to participate in full lives. No one is barred by mobility or resources from involvement in city life.
● Older people have ready access to programs, employment, activities and services that help them stay engaged, respected and appreciated
What are the 8 Domains of Age-Friendly Cities?
- Housing
- Transportation
- Outdoor spaces and buildings
- Community support and health service
- Communication and Information
- Civic participation and employment
- Respect and social inclusion
- Social participation
Domains of Age-Friendly Cities: housing
Abodes that engender physical activity
- Movement Related Experiences at Home
Domains of Age-Friendly Cities: transportation
Active Transport: Mobility
* Biking
* Walking
Domains of Age-Friendly Cities: outdoor spaces and buildings
Work: access into buildings/spaces, access across different parts
Leisure: engaging in recreational activities of choice
- Providing places to sit, handrails, areas protected by shade and have scenic outlooks
Domains of Age-Friendly Cities: community support and health service
Social support specific for physical activity (SSPA)
- Longitudinal study across 9 years
- Ages 60 to 65
- Positive significant relationship between SSPA and PA (p<0.001)
- Each unit of increase in SSPA was associated with 11 extra minutes of physical activity per week (Smith, Moyle, & Burton, 2023)
“Exercise is Medicine”
- Cater to individual’s journey
- Example Senior’s Balance and Conditioning Program Provided by: Covenant Health
Domains of Age-Friendly Cities: communication and information
How are we disseminating details
on physical activity opportunities?
Seniors consistently have lower rates of
technology adoption than the general public (Anderson, & Perrin, 2017).
Domains of Age-Friendly Cities: civic participation and employment
Social support for physical activity
Domains of Age-Friendly Cities: respect and social inclusion
Social support for physical activity
Domains of Age-Friendly Cities: social participation
Social support for physical activity
WHO regards active/healthy ageing as a life-long process
shaped by several factors that, alone and acting together, favour ________, ___________and _________ in older adult
life
health, participation, security
What is Environmental Justice?
Fair allocation and meaningful
involvement of all (especially vulnerable populations) in decisions regarding the environment
Distributive Justice
Fair allocation of public spaces
- Concerned with the availability/ allocation of recreation facilities/sites & spatial characteristics
- spatial characteristics, proximity, surrounding land use
Difference Principle
- ‘Unequal Treatment of Unequals’ (Lucy, 1981) and ‘Compensatory Equity Model’ (Crompton & Wicks, 1988)
- Distribution according to need (Talen, 1998)
Procedural Justice
Meaningful inclusion in decision-making
- Concerned with processes in making design and management decisions in relation to recreational facilities/sites
Greatest Equal Liberty Principle
- User inclusion in governance (Parker & Schmidt, 2017)
- Politics of exclusion in planning and design (Low & Iveson, 2019)
Interactional Justice
Fair experiences as pertains to the environment
- Concerned with experiences that take place pertaining to recreational facilities/sites
Situated Surplus (Pile,2005; Thrift, 2005)
- Accommodation towards instances and experiences which are outside the familiar or the manageable (Amin, 2008)
Cultural Politics lens (Schiller , 1997)
- Ethno-racial triggers to socio-ecological barriers of use (Wayara, 2021)
Distributive, Procedural, Interactional
Ecological Framework (Shortt, Rind, Pearce, & Mitchell 2014)
* Exploring factors that impact recreation participation (Rigolon, Fernandez, Harris, & Stewart, 2019).
Sense of ownership
Recognized responsibility over
a resource from engagement
processes
Sense of agency
Recognized ability to initiate desirable actions through
Distrust
state of doubt as relates to credibility of a process
Dissatisfaction
exclusion from a desired benefit
Justice Intersections: spatial practice (SP)
Spatial features
interactional justice - distributive justice
Justice Interactions: spaces of representation (SR)
Societal connections
interactional justice - procedural justice
Justice Intersections: representations of space (RS)
Plans and designs
distributive justice - procedural justice
