验证澳大利亚对老年人友好的城市和社区问卷：揭示大阿德莱德五个不同的老年人群体

IF 7 1区经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Habitat International Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI:10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103278

Romy Wasserman , Helen Barrie , Jeroen Dikken , Joost van Hoof , Veronica Soebarto

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迄今为止，已经应用了一系列定性和混合方法来评估城市和社区的老年人友好性。制定“关爱老人城市和社区问卷”是为了填补系统定量方法的空白，以评估城市和社区的基线关爱老人情况，然后衡量为更加关爱老人而正在进行的努力，与世界卫生组织（世卫组织）的模式保持一致。因此，它为城市评估老年人友好性提供了一种有效而有价值的定量方法。本文介绍了一项研究的过程和结果，该研究旨在测试AFCCQ在澳大利亚背景下的有效性和可靠性。这是一个更广泛的跨文化项目的一部分，该项目旨在对欧洲、亚洲、大洋洲和北美的AFCCQ进行测试，以获得方法上的见解和可比较的数据。在与当地人口和老龄化研究专家以及65岁及以上的人协商后，该仪器在澳大利亚的情况下证明是可靠的，然后分发给大阿德莱德的334名老年人进行验证。结果表明，AFCCQ-AU被证明是评估澳大利亚大城市和社区的年龄友好性的有效和可靠的工具。总体而言，总分表明对大阿德莱德地区的年龄友好特征的满意度中等-良好，其中住房领域得分最高（非常满意）。心理测量验证和聚类分析确定了生活在大阿德莱德的老年人的五种类型，其特点是不同的社会人口特征以及伴随的经验和对年龄友好的评估。澳大利亚的这一验证进一步加强了AFCCQ的作用，使其能够评估世界卫生组织全球老年友好城市和社区网络中的城市和社区的老年友好性。结合地方一级丰富而细致的定性数据，该工具能够为老年人及其社区创造重大成果。

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Validating the age-friendly cities and communities questionnaire in Australia: Revealing five distinct groups of older people in Greater Adelaide

To date, a range of qualitative and mixed-methods approaches have been applied to assess the age-friendliness of cities and communities. The Age-Friendly Cities and Communities Questionnaire (AFCCQ) has been developed to fill a gap for a systematic quantitative method approach to evaluate baseline age-friendliness in cities and communities and then measure ongoing efforts to become more age-friendly, aligned with the model by the World Health Organization (WHO). As such, it offers a valid and valuable quantitative method for cities to assess age-friendliness.

This paper presents the process and results of a study undertaken to test the validity and reliability of the AFCCQ for the Australian context. It is part of a broader cross-cultural project seeking to test the AFCCQ across Europe, Asia, Oceania, and North America to generate methodological insight and comparable data. Informed by consultation with local experts in population and ageing research, as well as with people aged 65 and over, the instrument proved reliable in the Australian context before being distributed to 334 older people in Greater Adelaide for validation.

Results show that the AFCCQ-AU proved a valid and reliable tool for evaluating the age-friendliness of larger cities and communities in Australia. Overall, the total score indicated moderate-good satisfaction with the age-friendliness features of the Greater Adelaide Region with the domain of Housing scoring highest (highly satisfactory). Psychometric validation and cluster analysis led to the identification of five typologies of older people living in Greater Adelaide, characterised by distinct socio-demographic profiles and concomitant experiences and evaluations of age-friendliness.

This Australian validation adds further weight to the role of the AFCCQ in being able to assess the age-friendliness of cities and communities across the WHO's Global Network for Age-Friendly Cities and Communities. Used in combination with the rich and nuanced qualitative data at the local level, the tool has the ability to create significant outcomes for older people and their communities.

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