| Author(s) | David W. Eby, Lisa J. Molnar, Renée M. St. Louis |
 | Year | 2019 |
 | Pages | 276 |
 | Language | English |
 | Format | PDF |
 | Size | 7 MB
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 | Publisher | Elsevier |
 | ISBN | 012812153X, 978-0128121535, B07KTV7YZB |
Promoting Safe Transportation among Older Adults: Perspectives and Strategies
provides a concise, comprehensive, and up-to-date resource on safe
mobility for an aging population. The book offers an interdisciplinary
perspective for understanding and influencing the behavior of older
adults with regard to their safe transportation. It is organized around
the professions and disciplines that have a stake in the safe
transportation of older adults and the role they play at each stage of
their mobility needs. The book also addresses the various strategies
that have been used to help keep older adults safe and mobile.
Readers
will find great insights on key issues related to aging and mobility,
giving them an overarching framework for how to maintain safe mobility
into older adulthood. The book enables readers to understand the
perspectives of the critical groups of people involved in keeping older
people safe and explores existing strategies by which an aging
individual can maintain safe mobility.
- Utilizes a multidisciplinary, evidence-based approach for examining the complexities of transportation for older adults
- Offers an integrated, overarching narrative for understanding the key issues of safety and mobility in our aging society
- Written by leading transportation and health scholars
- Offers
insights into the perspectives of all the stakeholders, such as
hands-on transportation and health practitioners, students of varying
levels, researchers and policymakers
