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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Abstract

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 languageEnglish
Article number102954
Number of pages9
JournalHealth and Place
Volume79
Early online date6 Dec 2022
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2023

Bibliographical note

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

Publisher Copyright:
© 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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