THE NEED FOR SPECIAL TRANSPORT SERVICE FOR ELDERLY AND HANDICAPPED PEOPLE

VILKA AELDRE BEHOEVER FAERDTJAENST?

The purpose of the present investigation was to analyze social and medical background factors among elderly who use special transport service (subsidized travel, St). The gerontological and geriatric population study of persons 70 years and older in Gothenburg is the basis for this presentation. The study is longitudinal. Elderly people with subsidized travel, St, were living alone, felt more lonely and ill more often than elderly people without St. They also had more musculoskeletal problems but in many other medical respects most people with St did not differ very much from those without St. (TRRL)

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  Transportforskningsberedningen

  Box 2242
  Stockholm,   Sweden 
• Authors:
  • Rundgren, A A
• Publication Date: 1988

Language

• Swedish

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 48 p.
• Serial:
  • TFB Meddelande
  • Issue Number: 38
  • Publisher: Transportforksningsberedningen
  • ISSN: 0283-9105

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aged; Demand; Diseases and medical conditions; Health; Mobility; Paratransit services; Sociology; Transportation
• ITRD Terms: 285: Demand (econ); 2144: Health; 2154: Medical aspects; 9105: Mobility (pers); 1746: Old people; 1128: Paratransit; 2253: Sociology; 1155: Transport
• Subject Areas: Safety and Human Factors; Society; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00493435
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 30 1990 12:00AM