Employing citizen science to enhance active and healthy ageing in urban environments

Improving Your Local Area Citizen Scientists and Community Stakeholders

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102954

Employing citizen science to enhance active and healthy ageing in urban environments

Improving Your Local Area Citizen Scientists and Community Stakeholders

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Engaging older residents in problem definition and solution-building is key to the success of place-based initiatives endeavouring to increase the age-friendliness of urban environments. This study employed the Our Voice framework, engaging older adult citizen scientists (n = 14) and community stakeholders (n = 15) across the city of Birmingham, UK. With the aim of identifying urban features impacting age friendliness and co-producing recommendations for improving local urban areas, citizen scientists participated in 12 technology-enabled walkability assessments, three in-person discussion groups, two one-to-one online discussions, and two workshops with community stakeholders. Together, citizen scientists co-produced 12 local and six city-wide recommendations. These recommendations were embedded into an implementation framework based on workshop discussions to identify age-friendly pathways in urban environments.

Original language	English
Article number	102954
Number of pages	9
Journal	Health and Place
Volume	79
Early online date	6 Dec 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102954
Publication status	Published - Jan 2023

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Funding Information:
This work was supported by the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom , as part of a PhD studentship.

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© 2022 The Authors

Keywords

Age-friendly
Co-production
Older adults
Place-based
Urban health

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Health(social science)
Sociology and Political Science
Life-span and Life-course Studies

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