Study Of Physical Environment On Walkable Life Street Among Older Adults

The degree of aging in China is continuously deepening,and the psychological and physiological changes of the elderly have increased their demand for the aging-friendly construction of the built environment.However,large-scale extensive construction has caused many built environments to be unsuitable for the elderly,affecting their healthy lives.Walking is the most important activity of daily life of the elderly,which has a profound impact on the physical and mental health of the elderly.Living streets are the main places for the elderly to walk,and their physical environment cannot effectively support the elderly to walk in motorized construction.At present,China’s urban construction is shifting towards health,tolerance,and quality.Explore the physical and environmental characteristics of life-friendly streets suitable for the elderly and build life streets suitable for the elderly has profoundly affected the quality of life and healthy development of the elderly,which has important practical significance.First,determine the suitability evaluation criteria to meet the walking needs of the elderly.Starting from the entire process of walking motivation,perception and behavior of the elderly,and combining the physical and psychological characteristics of the elderly and the impact of changes in physical function and perception on walking,determine the elderly walking Demand factors: support the feasibility of improving the convenience and daily life of the elderly,make up for the elderly’s difficulty in walking safely,easy to read,smooth and easy to walk,and improve the beautiful,pleasant and social belonging of the elderly.Secondly,the research practice of the physical environment of living streets is reviewed.The open questionnaires are used to investigate the physical environmental factors of the living streets that are affected to the elderly walking.Preliminary determination of physical environmental factors based on walking suitability and discomfort,and review by experts to finally extract the three categories of functional service facilities,walking experience space,and walking perception environment,a total of 35 items affecting the living street physical environment elements of the elderly,and develop qualitative research methods.Then,an empirical survey of the physical environmental characteristics of living streets suitable for elderly walking is conducted.Conduct empirical research on seven living streets in Chongqing,and obtain quantitative data on relevant physical and environmental factors that affect the elderly’s walking through surveys and spatial analysis.Use questionnaire interviews to obtain satisfaction evaluations of walking needs of the elderly.Multivariate regression analysis obtained the physical environment elements of the sensitive streets of the elderly on the walk,analyzed the influence mechanism,and determined the characteristics of the physical environment of the streets on the street suitable for the elderly to walk:Feasibility characteristics: Accessible large-scale commercial facilities and abundant daily life are the feasible features of daily life for the elderly in living streets;perfect barrier-free leisure activity venues and flat street crossing facilities,convenient public toilets and public transportation,and open The street interface together constitutes the characteristics of the life and quality of the elderly in the street;Accessibility characteristics: Appropriate walking path width,well-ordered pedestrian and vehicle environment,and easy-to-recognize barrier-free facilities are the characteristics of elderly people who are safe and easy to walk.Pedestrian space division and neat and shelterable street environment provide smooth and easy walking environment for the elderly;Pleasant characteristics: good open greenery landscape and interface transparency,facilities and venues for leisure activities,a safe environment for pedestrians and vehicles,and a unique cultural sense of the street are living street features that enhance the elderly’s beautiful and pleasant experience;provide rest facilities,use wider street space to create beautiful and communicable places is a characteristic of living streets to promote the sense of belonging of the elderly.Finally,based on the needs of the elderly for the feasibility,accessibility and pleasant of walking,paper proposes a strategy for optimizing the physical environment of living streets suitable for the elderly to walk.The walkable and healthy living street material environment construction for the elderly provides reference and guidance,and enriches the theory system of the construction of a friendly environment for the elderly.