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Transportation challenges for persons aging with mobility disability: Qualitative insights and policy implications
dc.contributor.author | Remillard, Elena T. | |
dc.contributor.author | Campbell, Margaret L. | |
dc.contributor.author | Koon, Lyndsie M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Rogers, Wendy A. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-10-12T21:07:23Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-10-12T21:07:23Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | E.T. Remillard, M.L. Campbell, L.M. Koon, W.A. Rogers. Transportation challenges for persons aging with mobility disability: Qualitative insights and policy implications. Disability and Health Journal, 15 (1) (2022), p. 101209, 10.1016/j.dhjo.2021.101209 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/33599 | |
dc.description.abstract | Background Persons aging with mobility disability (PAwMD) experience transportation barriers, which can hinder their ability to fully participate in society. Despite a vast infrastructure of federal laws and programs designed to ensure access to transportation, PAwMD remain a transportation-disadvantaged population.Objectives This paper presents detailed insights on transportation challenges experienced by PAwMD along with recent Federal programmatic initiatives designed to enhance access and mobility for transportation for older adults and people with disabilities. To identify policy gaps and opportunities to improve transportation services, we compared individual-level challenges from PAwMD to national survey data about barriers associated with delivering transportation services at state and local levels.Methods To assess individual-level transportation challenges, we conducted in-depth, structured interviews with sixty older adult participants with self-identified mobility disabilities for at least 10 years. We also conducted a content analysis of end-user transportation challenges and agency-level transportation coordination barriers to identify correspondences.Results Participants reported challenges utilizing public and private modes of transportation, related to availability; accessibility; safety; advanced planning; as well as societal attitudes. Barriers to the availability, delivery, and coordination of access and mobility services are linked directly or indirectly to the PAwMD reports of experiencing a shortage of accessible transportation options.Conclusions Findings highlight the complexity of federal transportation policies and programmatic initiatives designed to support older adults and people with disabilities, which contribute to implementation barriers and transportation challenges. Results highlight the importance of integrating end-user and state and local provider input into transportation policy development and program implementation. | en_US |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
dc.rights | © 2021 Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license. | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 | en_US |
dc.subject | Aging | en_US |
dc.subject | Disability | en_US |
dc.subject | Aging with disability | en_US |
dc.subject | Transportation | en_US |
dc.subject | Policy | en_US |
dc.title | Transportation challenges for persons aging with mobility disability: Qualitative insights and policy implications | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
kusw.kuauthor | Koon, Lyndsie M. | |
kusw.kudepartment | Research and Training Center on Independent Living | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.dhjo.2021.101209 | en_US |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | en_US |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | en_US |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | en_US |
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