Cycling Beyond Your Sixties: The Role of Cycling in Later Life and How It Can Be Supported and Promoted
Year: 2017
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Decision makers and authorities largely ignore cycling when conceptualising and developing programmes to support older mobility and therefore, unsurprisingly, levels of cycling in the United Kingdom are low compared to other northern European nations. Cycling has the potential to play an important role in the active ageing agenda and provide older citizens with a form of independent mobility that enhances personal health and wellbeing. The chapter provides evidence of the important role cycling does and could play in older people’s mobility and outlines ways in which older cycling could be supported and promoted.
Authors: Tim Jones, Kiron Chatterjee, Ben Spencer, Heather Jones
Language: English
Subfield: Transportation
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2770182268