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Volume 7, Issue 5 (Suppl)
J Palliat Care Med, an open access journal
ISSN: 2165-7386
Geriatrics 2017
September 4-5, 2017
September 4-5, 2017 | Edinburgh, Scotland
Geriatrics Gerontology & Palliative Nursing
7
th
International Conference on
DETERMINANT FACTORS AND ELDERLY PERSPECTIVES OF USERS’ FRIENDLY
TRANSPORTATION
Soad Mahfozpour
a
, Manijeh Iranfar
a
and
Elaheh Ainy
a
a
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Iran
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lderly as vulnerable road users have more deaths by road traffic injuries and road traffic injuries is the second leading
cause of death among people 65 years and older. Determination of transport status among elderly could help to identify the
existing vacancy that could improve elder’s safety and to be used in traffic injury reduction planning in the country. The current
study aimed to determine the optimal transport characteristics of elder’s perspectives.
Materials andMethods:
Perspective of 200 elders 60 years and older about Friendly Transportation characteristics: (availability,
acceptability, accessibility, compatibility, affordability) were studied in a descriptive cross-sectional study. All the elderly
population attending the cultural centers and parks’ at North, South, West, East and Central areas of Tehran, were selected at
randomly. Elders were divided into three age groups: young (70-60 years), middle aged (80-70 years), and old (80 years and
older). Consent form was taken from samples to participate in the study. Data were collected using a designed questionnaire.
Validity and reliability of the instrument were determined using content validity and test-retest reliability (Cronbach's alpha
89%).
Results:
The mean age of samples was 73.8 ± 8.5 years. More than 70% of the studied samples had less than 12 years of high
schools’ education. Forty percent of samples had incomes below a million Tomans (equal to 10,000,000 IRR). And %75, 4
of elders did not have any satisfaction from the availability characteristic of public transport. Acceptability characteristic of
friendly transportation was good in %45, 5 of elders’ opinion. Also, 60 percent of studied elders reported poor accessibility
to public transport. Compatibility characteristic of friendly transportation was good in %76, 4 of elders’ opinion. Elder men
opinions about affordability characteristic of friendly transportation were good and women opinions were reported weak.
Conclusion:
Results confirmed that elderly transportation was inappropriate. To attain friendly transportation, planning, need
to address infrastructure alteration and traffic improvements for availability and accessibility characteristics among both men
and women and affordability characteristic among women are felt more essential.
J Palliat Care Med 2017, 7:5(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2165-7386-C1-012