Hatami, F., Siren, A. and O’Hern, S. (2024) Supporting aging in place through new mobility solutions. In: Innovation in Aging. The GSA 2024 Annual Scientific Meeting, “The Fortitude Factor”, 13-16 Nov 2024, Seattle, Washington, USA. Oxford University Press , p. 483.
Abstract
Aging in place is among the most widespread contemporary policy concepts. However, an important prerequisite for aging in place is the possibility to attend out-of-home activities, which requires satisfactory mobility options. Previous research has indicated that new transportation solutions and technologies may hold promise for older people’s mobility needs. To investigate these promising opportunities and how they may support aging in place, a critical literature review was conducted. Using Web of Science, Scopus, and PubMed as electronic journal databases, we searched keywords representing the user group (older adults), the solution (transport systems), and its qualities (novel), limiting the search to publications between 1990-2023. The search was complemented by hand-searching of reference lists and selected project homepages. The initial search yielded more than 3000 publications. After screening for title, abstract and contents, around 110 publications were included for review. To create a conceptual model, we synthetized major findings, and identified common themes, trends, and disparities in the existing literature. We analyzed whether proposed solutions are evidence based and whether the literature focuses on implementation processes. We also analyzed which mobility needs the solutions are explicitly targeting, and which groups of older adults are thought to be the main users of these solutions. Our conclusion is that while literature addresses many novel solutions that have potential for supporting older adults’ mobility, there are significant knowledge gaps related to assessing the feasibility of these solutions.
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Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > Institute for Transport Studies (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 01 May 2025 16:50 |
Last Modified: | 01 May 2025 16:50 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/geroni/igae098.1576 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:225811 |