A study on characteristic of going out behavior of elderly people who lives in city and physical environmental factors that are causes of decrease in going out frequency

这项研究是针对老年人进行的，旨在提取可能影响老年人外出频率的“外出活动特征”和“物理环境因素”，包括居住环境和城镇发展。对居住在东京荒川区的老年人进行了邮寄调查和听力调查。结果表明：1)由于主观幸福感比物理环境因素对外出频率的影响更大，因此单靠无障碍增强很难达到阻止外出频率减少的效果；2)外出频率减少的老年人的日常生活活动范围随着他们与当地社区交流的减少而缩小；3)城镇改善需要增加分散布置的公共厕所以及公共空间中的板凳和休息地。

The present study has been conducted for elderly people aiming at extracting "characteristics of going-out activity" and "physical environmental factors" including dwelling environment and town development which may affect their going-out frequency. A mail-in survey as well as a hearing survey was conducted for elderly people living in Arakawa-ward, Tokyo. As the result, it has been revealed that 1) it is difficult to get such effect as to prevent reduction in going-out frequency by barrier-free enhancement alone because subjective sense of well-being affects going-out frequency more intensely than physical environmental factors, and 2) sphere of daily living activities of elderly people with reduced going-out frequency has been narrowed along with their reduced communication with the local community, and that 3) it is required for town improvement to increase public restrooms to be arranged in a dispersed manner as well as benches and resting sites in public spaces.