1. Decline in older adults’ daily mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of individual and built environment factors
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Eun Yeong Choe, Yao Du, and Guibo Sun
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Active travel ,Public transport use ,Travel behaviour ,Post-pandemic ,Hong Kong ,Public aspects of medicine ,RA1-1270 - Abstract
Abstract Background Extensive research has shown that the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically impacted the daily mobility of older adults. However, very little attention has been paid to the role of individual and built environmental factors in decline in older adults’ daily mobility during the pandemic. Methods Based on a cohort survey of 741 older adults in Hong Kong, we conducted a one-way ANOVA to explore the differences in determinants (individual or environmental factors) of older adults’ daily mobility between before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Further, multilevel linear regression was performed to examine how individual characteristics and built environment factors are associated with changes in older adults’ daily mobility during the pandemic. Results Results show that the duration of active travel declined from 174.72 to 76.92 min per week, and that the public transport use frequency decreased from an average of 6.14 to 3.96 trips per week during the COVID-19 pandemic (before the rollout of vaccination programme). We also found residential density (p
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- 2022
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