How Age-Friendly Are Cities? Measuring Age-Frendliness with a Composite Index

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://www.igi-global.com/book/emerging-trends-development-application-composite/148514" target="_blank" >http://www.igi-global.com/book/emerging-trends-development-application-composite/148514</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
How Age-Friendly Are Cities? Measuring Age-Frendliness with a Composite Index
Original language description
The chapter introduces the Age Friendly City Index as a way of measuring the age-friendliness of urban environments. The proposed index assesses the dimensions of outdoor spaces and transportation as they are perceived and evaluated by older people, residents of the fourteen biggest towns in the Czech Republic. The dimensions and items included in the index are constructed upon the theoretical framework proposed by the World Health Organisation Global Age-Friendly Cities Project. Correlation coefficients show that the index is connected to other indicators of quality of life. Validation of the results of the index is based on experimental open-ended question analysis. The resulting categories confirm the importance of greenery and aesthetics for the age-friendly concept, and confirm the rankings of cities obtained via the composite index. In addition, comparison with similar measures tested in Canada and Hong Kong are discussed, and the necessity of backing up index measures with policy analysis and general structural support is argued for.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GAP404%2F10%2F1555" target="_blank" >GAP404/10/1555: Ageing in the environment: regeneration, gentrification and social exclusion as new issues in environmental gerontology</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Emerging Trends in the Development and Application of Composite Indicators
ISBN
9781522507147
Number of pages of the result
21
Pages from-to
277-297
Number of pages of the book
300
Publisher name
IGI Global
Place of publication
Hershey, PA, USA
UT code for WoS chapter
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