Locating Community-Based Comprehensive Service Facilities for Older Adults Using the GIS-NEMA Method in Harbin, China

《Locating Community-Based Comprehensive Service Facilities for Older Adults Using the GIS-NEMA Method in Harbin, China》

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作者: Yuanhong Ma;Guangtian Zou;Jung-hye Shin;Yuhao Kang;Song Gao;Kin Wai Michael Siu;Suxin Zhang

作者单位: Ph.D. Candidate, School of Architecture, Harbin Institute of Technology, Key Laboratory of Cold Region Urban and Rural Human Settlement Environment Science and Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150006, China; Ph.D. Candidate, School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China. Email: [email protected];Professor, School of Architecture, Harbin Institute of Technology, Key Laboratory of Cold Region Urban and Rural Human Settlement Environment Science and Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150006, China. Email: [email protected];Associate Professor, Design Studies Dept., Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706 (corresponding author). ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3443-8647. Email: [email protected];Ph.D. Candidate, Geospatial Data Science Lab, Dept. of Geography, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706. Email: [email protected];Assistant Professor, Geospatial Data Science Lab, Dept. of Geography, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4359-6302. Email: [email protected];Chair Professor, School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China. Email: [email protected];Ph.D. Candidate, School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9117-4967. Email: [email protected]

摘要: Local governments and scholars in China have recently proposed and developed community-based comprehensive service facilities for older adults in response to population aging and greater service needs of older adults in urban areas. This study proposes a method to identify the ideal distribution of such facilities by combining the nested ecological model of aging in place as the theoretical foundation with a geographic information system as the methodological tool. The findings indicate that many essential services, particularly health care and places for socialization, are lacking in urban areas when walkability and accessibility to public services are considered. The findings also indicate that the downtown and main factory areas with higher population density have a higher need for developing community-based comprehensive services facilities for older adults. The proposed method shows strong potential for locating service networks and provides useful information for policy development, urban planning, and architectural programming.