The Research of Elderly People''s Social Support and Walking Space by Space-time Path - A Case Study of Taipei Xinyi District

• Main Authors: Chuan-Jen Ning, 寗全貞
• Other Authors: 蔡淑瑩
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/22w86b

碩士 === 國立臺北科技大學 === 建築與都市設計研究所 === 102 === Under the trend of global aging, the issue of elders should be paid attention. Up to January 2014, the elders popularity occupied 11.57% in Taiwan. Approximately Taiwan will step in to Aged society in 2017. In order to make the elders have a healthy and active life, the living environment and space arranging should be the important part in the urban city. This study calculates the walking space and the living path of elders by out-door activity type, walking range time and walking environment to understand the activity condition and type of elders in Xin-Yi district and also testified by the standers of Outdoor spaces and buildings in the standers of aging friendly city. This study investigates 22 elders in Xin-Yi district by GPS record, observation and deeply interviews to explore the influence factor like activity type, activity item, space equipment and walking environment of elders to propose the requirement of walking space and the improvement subjects in Xin-Yi district. This study discovered the outdoor walking activity of elders and classified as social, selecting and essentiality and the activity space like community activity center, shop, market, plaza, park, hospital, clinic, mountain, church, sports center, public authority, exhibition stadium and Taipei medical university. The social type elders’ walking time and distance is 91min/day and 3531m/day; selection type elders’ walking time and distance is 63min/day and 2193m/day; essentiality type elders’ walking time and distance is 84min/day and 1686m/day. The social type elders’ walking period is all day especially at night and most of all for the social and service for 4hr35min/day; selection type elders’ walking period is also all day but stay in community at night leaving most free time without any restrict factors to affect their activities and 3hr17min/day for outdoor activity time; essentiality type elders’ walking time is distributed at morning, afternoon and night and the range is in community for the shortest activity time 1hr34min/day. There is also discover these three type elders have different walking time and range to arrive at their activity space. The social type elders’ go out making traffic as their purpose. They can accept 12min for walking time and 675m for walking distance otherwise they will take bus for transportation. Selection type elders go out making traffic and leisure as their purpose. They can accept walking for 10min and 343m to their destination by any kind of transportation. Essentiality type elders go out walking for traffic and leisure. They can accept walking for 6min and 145m to their destination. The demand of walking environment for the traffic purpose are 6 : beautiful, street connectivity, public facility accessibility, livelihood facility accessibility, sidewalk comfort and safety. The demand of walking environment for the leisure purpose are 6 : beautiful, livelihood facility accessibility, sidewalk comfort, open space accessibility, public facility accessibility and society support. In the other hand, testified by the standers of Outdoor spaces and buildings in the standers of aging friendly city, the walking environment and public space of Xin-Yi district should priority to improve: friendly walking space, save crossing road, sidewalk for people and bike and resting place. Unfriendly spots are assemble at Wu-Xing market, Jung-Tuo country house, Xin-yuan community and the surrounding, Sun Yat-Sen memorial hall, Wu-Xing street, Juang-Jing street and the end of Song-Ren road. Summing up the condition of elder activity and society support, the demand of activity environment and walking space for social type elders are public social space, safe crossing road space, bus stop and support by the information on the bus; the demand of activity environment and walking space for selection type elders are communication chairs at shop arcade, diverse sports facility; the demand of activity environment and walking space for essential type elders are participatory to the open space, groups cooperative facility. By the setting and improving of the items above, wish it can improve the social support for elders then we can provide a friendly and healthy urban city activity space for them.