Evaluating Status of Global Indices of Age-Friendly City In Tehran Metropolis (AFC)
Published Online: Aug 26, 2018
Page range: 35 - 52
Received: Jan 11, 2016
Accepted: Aug 10, 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/acee-2016-034
© 2016 Ali SHARQI et al., published by Sciendo
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
OBJECTIVES:
This study aims to assess the global indices of age-friendly city in Tehran, which have been developed by World Health Organization. Finally, the design solutions carried out based on the successful works in other countries will be presented for city of Tehran.
MATERIALS AND METHODS:
In the present study, World Health Organization’s standard questionnaire was duplicated in 110 copies and given to urban designers and planners, rehabilitation specialists, doctors, nurses, and other aging-related professionals and experts. Then, the resulting data were imported into SPSS22 software and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.
FINDINGS:
The results indicated that, among 8 indices of age-friendly city including open spaces and buildings, transportation, housing, social participation, respect and social inclusion of the elderly, citizen participation and employment of the elderly, communication and information facilities, as well as health and local services, transportation factor had a more favorable condition in Tehran for the elderly and citizen participation and employment index was very inappropriate for them.
CONCLUSION:
It can be said that urban designers and researchers should deal with the planning of housing and buildings’ open spaces in a more detailed manner in their future works and pursue more accurate plans and programs in this regard. This study aims to only evaluate the mentioned issue, and special and detailed research is expected to be conducted on these two subjects in the future.