Co-design of the built environment for mobility in later life

流动性、幸福感和建筑环境：晚年的幸福感与独立性的保持、身体流动性本身和能够走动的感觉有关。流动性对于获得服务、资源和设施、社会参与和避免孤独至关重要。因此，移动性被更广泛地描述为“与世界的接触”。建筑环境的设计在实现或阻碍移动性方面发挥着关键作用。因此，对建筑环境进行适当的设计或重新设计可以扩大视野并支持福祉。然而，这个项目的重点是补充或替代物理设计或重新设计的建筑环境。设计和调整是时间和资源密集型的。由于预算限制，许多众所周知的流动障碍仍然存在。建筑环境的设计只是决定流动性和福祉的因素之一。任何一种环境都不能同时满足所有需求，甚至对个人来说，需求也会有所不同，因为人们正在经历可能改变流动性和福祉的关键身体和社会转型。该项目旨在基于参与性研究，创建一套能够满足不同需求的选项和工具，支持流动性和福祉，这项研究的目的是：1）探索老年人在经历关键但常见的生活转变时的流动性和福祉; 2）调查和解决不同老年人群体需求的差异和矛盾（甚至随着时间的推移，对于单个人），以及不同的建筑环境议程之间;（3）共同创造实用工具，作为对建筑环境重新设计的补充或替代。在基础阶段之后，将开始与国家专家和利益攸关方进行访谈。我们将选择三个对比鲜明的地方作为研究的基础，并采访每个地区的15名当地利益相关者。然后，我们将开始一项开创性的季度流动性和健康跟踪研究，与三个地点的c120老年人合作，他们正在经历关键但常见的生活转变，如失去驾驶执照，失去伴侣或成为照顾者。这些转变通常被视为流动性和福祉恶化的关键点，也是支持和干预的关键点。然后，我们将与一系列老年人小组在研讨会和共同设计会议上合作，探索干预的潜力，作为通过重新设计促进流动性和福祉的替代和补充。每一项研究都将涉及研究人员和老年人之间为期一天的会议，为期约一年。其中一组讲习班将探讨“众包”和扩展性地理信息系统如何能够更好地补充和整理有关流动性需求、需要和障碍的信息。另一个项目将涉及对建筑环境有不同兴趣的老年人，以探讨冲突和就某些问题达成共识的可能性。将与老年人共同设计研讨会，探索基于智能手机的移动的技术，帮助人们避免在特定地区的流动性的关键障碍。其他研讨会将与移动踏板车用户，制造商和那些移动性可能受到踏板车威胁的人合作，探讨调整踏板车以减少问题的可行性。项目产出将包括：一个项目网站、供项目利益攸关方和其他人查阅的年度中期报告和总结报告、总结报告、在各团队成员学科的学术期刊上发表的文章、为相关专业人员撰写的行业新闻文章、可能的视频或新媒体、当地利益攸关方和老年人会议、全国“路演”以及其他传播活动。

Mobility, wellbeing and the built environment: Wellbeing in later life is linked to the maintenance of independence, physical mobility itself and the sense of being able to get about. Mobility is vital for accessing services, resources and facilities, for social participation, and for avoiding loneliness. Thus mobility has been described more broadly as 'engagement with the world'.The design of the built environment has a key role to play in enabling - or frustrating - mobility. Thus appropriate design or redesign of the built environment can expand horizons and support wellbeing. However, this project focuses on complements or alternatives to physical design or redesign of the built environment. Design and adaptation are time and resource intensive. Many well-understood mobility barriers remain in place because of budget constraints. Design of the built environment is just one the determinants of mobility and wellbeing. Any one environment cannot meet all needs at once, and needs can vary even for an individual, as people pass through key physical and social transitions which may alter mobility and wellbeing.Based on participatory research, this project aims to create a suite of options and tools which may be able to meet contrasting needs, support mobility and wellbeing, and do so more quickly and affordably than adapting the built environment.The research aims to: 1) Explore mobility and wellbeing for older people going through critical but common life transitions; 2) Investigate and address variation and contradictions in needs of different groups of older people (and even for single individuals over time), and between different built environment agendas; and 3) To co-create practical tools which can act as complements or alternatives to redesign of the built environment.After a foundation stage the work will commence with interviews with national experts and stakeholders. We will select three contrasting local areas in which to base the rest of the research, and interview c15 local stakeholders in each area. We will then start a pioneering quarterly tracking study of mobility and wellbeing, working with c120 older people in the three sites who are experiencing critical but common life transitions such as losing a driving license, losing a partner, or becoming a carer. These transitions are often seen as key points for deterioration in mobility and wellbeing, and as key points for support and intervention.We will then work with a series of small groups of older people in workshops and co-design sessions, to explore the potential for interventions as alternatives and complements to promoting mobility and wellbeing via redesign. Each will involve a series of day-long meetings between researchers and older people, over about a year. One set of workshops will explore how well 'crowdsourcing' and Participatory Geographical Information Systems can add to and collate information about mobility wants and needs and barriers. Another will involve older people with varying interests in relation to the built environment, to explore conflicts and the potential for consensus on some issues. There will be co-design workshops with older people to explore mobile technologies based on SmartPhones, to help people avoid key blockages to mobility in particular areas. Other workshops will work with mobility scooter users, and manufacturers and those whose mobility may be threatened by scooters, to explore the feasibility of adapting scooters to reduce problems. The impact of participation itself will be tracked.Project outputs will include: a project website, accessible annual interim and summative reports to project stakeholders and others, a summative report, articles for academic journals across team member disciplines, trade press articles for relevant professionals, potentially video or new media, a local stakeholder and older person conference and national 'Roadshow', as well as other dissemination events.