Time Use, Disability, and Mobility of Older Americans

This study explored how disability, mobility, social and leisure engagement, and travel behavior influence older people’s life satisfaction. The study used the 2013 Disability and Use of Time data for people ages 50 years and older, many of whom reported physical impairments. The study developed a model that related life satisfaction with various time use, disability, and mobility variables. Summary statistics of time use showed that as people aged, they spent more time on solitary, passive leisure activities; social face-to-face time did not seem to change very much. Alone passive leisure time use was especially large for those who experienced a physical mobility-related disability and were carless. The study used an ordinal logistic regression and found that longer alone leisure time uses were associated with lower life satisfaction. Life satisfaction was positively affected by transportation variables, such as vehicle availability. The study also found that social face-to-face time use had a weak positive relationship with life satisfaction, and technology-mediated social activities had a strong negative relationship with life satisfaction.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.3141/2650-07
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/9780309442091
• Authors:
  • Li, Moyin
  • Tilahun, Nebiyou
• Publication Date: 2017

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 58–65
• Monograph Title: Public Transportation, Volume 4: Paratransit, Accessibility, Mobility, and the Sharing Economy
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Issue Number: 2650
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Activity choices; Aged; Leisure time; Logistic regression analysis; Mobility; Physical disabilities; Quality of life; Social factors; Telecommunications; Travel behavior
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01631142
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780309442091
• Report/Paper Numbers: 17-05297
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 29 2017 9:23AM