Xiaoming, Li;
Sailer, Kerstin;
(2022)
Urban fabric and social participation in community-based
elderly care facilities.
In: Van Nes, Akkelies, (ed.)
Proceedings of the 13th Space Syntax Symposium.
(pp. p. 417).
Space Syntax Symposium: Bergen, Norway.
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Abstract
Apart from providing essential care for elderly inhabitants, a well addressed purpose of community-based elderly care facilities is to promote social integration through encouraging visitors from the neighbourhood to continuously participate in activities and use services offered by the facility. The location of care facilities and their local environment have been widely argued to constitute a critical factor for older people’s continuous participation, which induces the formation and maintenance of personal networks between the different user groups, as well as a sense of attachment. However, existing literature on care facility location and older people’s participation predominantly uses qualitative methods, and often applied to a single case. This causes ambiguity and controversy when comparing findings from different cases and also makes the generalisation of study findings problematic. This paper introduces a spatial network model which based on Space Syntax theory to explicitly describe spatial relations between care facilities and urban fabric. With a large dataset of social participation records from 91 community-based elderly care facilities in the Chinese city of Nanjing, the study will investigate how differentiated locational properties exert influence on patterns of older people’s social participation. Findings indicate that local-scale spatial properties could influence occurrence patterns of social participation in care facilities, and the mechanism local-scale spatial properties exert influence varies in differentiated global-scale spatial contexts.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Urban fabric and social participation in community-based elderly care facilities |
| Event: | 13th International Space Syntax Symposium |
| Location: | Bergen, Norway |
| Dates: | 20 Jun 2022 - 24 Jun 2022 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.hvl.no/contentassets/33ac48edb59d4f4ea... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | space syntax, social participation, spatial networks, urban form, community based elderly care, elderly |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10154632 |
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