Category:
User Experience
Net4Age Ontology Terms:
aging
, autonomy
, citizen
, city
, comfort
, community
, design
, education
, experience
, people
, place
, policy
, safety
, security
, transportation
, usability
Description:
Age Friendly Ireland is the organisation responsible for the national Age Friendly Programme, affiliated to the World Health Organization's [WHO] Global Network of Age Friendly Cities and Communities. The programme involves a multiagency, multi-sectoral approach to age-related planning and service provision. Age Friendly Ireland supports cities and counties to be more inclusive of older people by addressing their expressed concerns and interests under the eight pillars of the World Health Organization's global programme.
Overview:
Respond to nationwide consultations with older people in relation to transportation
Objectives:
Setting up multi-agency transport services with the support of both the Councils and the HSE to provide health and shop routes, community car schemes and other ways to support older people in accessing key services across their communities.Involving older people in planning the location of age friendly parking, bus stops, shelters and seating and real-time transport information.Making bus drivers aware of the needs of vulnerable community members.Maintaining bus stops and pavements, and ensuring route information is accessible.Enabling older people to go out in tricycle rickshaws pedalled by volunteers.Ensuring that stations, transport terminals and taxi ranks incorporate age friendly design.Ensuring that older people are fully informed about the availability of transport options in their city or county.
Initiatives:
Actions in direct response to consultations with older people across Ireland
Shortcomings:
Doesn't measure the impact of any changes from the perspective of older adults.
Relevance:
4
Relevance Description:
Access to transportation for older people
Quality:
3
Opinion:
It is a good initiative but needs to provide examples of actual changes made and also consult with the older population to get their opinions of its impact on their daily lives.
Recommended:
Yes
Overlap:
No
Overlap Detail:
Sources:
https://agefriendlyireland.ie/category/transportation/why-its-important-transportation/
Keywords:
transportation, mobility, rural areas,
Submitted By:
Helen Kelly
Email:
helen.kelly@ucc.ie