Session: Maintaining Mobility: Geographies of transport and ageing.
A combination of increases in life expectancy and better physical health means that older people are on average achieving higher mobility when compared with earlier generations, especially in terms of private mobility modes. This provides new challenges for the provision of transport services particularly in view of changes in ability to use certain forms of transport, changes in lifestyle and income associated with later life. Despite being in better health, and physically fitter than ever before, those aged 65 and over are the group most likely to be face difficulty when needing to travel, for example, they are more likely than younger people to be unable to walk or cycle for long periods of time, to have to give-up driving and have more difficulty in physically accessing public transport. Despite this, policy maintains extending independence and ageing in place as vital requirements to a dignified healthy later life without ever really addressing mobility issues.
We welcome papers which consider the transport geographies of ageing populations, including, but not limited to:
Proposals for papers, with a title, a short abstract of 250 words and your full contact details, should be sent to the co-organisers Charles Musselwhite
mailto:c.b.a.musselwhite@swansea.ac.uk and Angela Curl mailto:angela.curl@glasgow.ac.uk by Friday 13th February:
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