Age-Friendly Rural Areas : The Challenges of Measurement and Evaluation in Czech Older Adults

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F18%3A00101376" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/18:00101376 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.muni.cz/socialni_studia/article/view/11218" target="_blank" >https://journals.muni.cz/socialni_studia/article/view/11218</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Age-Friendly Rural Areas : The Challenges of Measurement and Evaluation in Czech Older Adults

Original language description

This article presents a study on the application of the age-friendly measurement index in the context of rural areas in the Czech Republic. Small cities and rural settlements comprise the great majority of municipalities and face considerable ageing of their populations. The age-friendliness concept expresses how and to what extent communities offer a supportive environment that enables residents to grow older actively within their families, neighbourhoods, and civil society together with extensive opportunities for participation in the community. Amenities related to public spaces and transportation are key aspects supporting these goals. The proposed measure uses the survey method to describe the perceptions of these aspects by older inhabitants in settlements of various degrees of rurality. The more rural areas, as expected, show fewer positive evaluations of outdoors amenities and transportation; however, this does not influence outcome variables, such as reported happiness, subjective health or overall satisfaction. Discussion of the content of the age-friendly concept in rural contexts is provided.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA16-20873S" target="_blank" >GA16-20873S: Rural ageing: unanswered questions of environmental gerontology</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sociální studia

ISSN

1214-813X

e-ISSN

1803-6104

Volume of the periodical

15

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

25-43

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85062882495