TRANSPORTATION: THE DIVERSE AGED, POLICY REPORT ONE. USC RESEARCH PROGRAM ON SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS OF AGING

The report is designed for transportation policymakers, planners, social service delivery personnel, and advocates for the aged. It investigates the transportation patterns and problems of older persons. The purpose of the report is to highlight the aged's transportation problems, and to offer possible solutions to mobility dilemmas of many senior citizens. Three different studies were conducted: (1) a survey of 1,269 community residents, age 45-74, sampled from three ethnic groups in Southern California from various socioeconomic levels; (2) 316 decisionmakers involved at various levels in establishing, implementing, or influencing policy regarding the elderly; (3) a cross-cultural anthropological investigation of aging in three foreign countries (Yugoslavia, Tanzania, and Mexico) and of the adaptations made by immigrants growing old in the American culture.

• Corporate Authors:

  University of Southern California, Los Angeles

  Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center
  Los Angeles, CA  United States 

  National Science Foundation

  Research Applied to National Needs
  Washington, DC  United States  20550
• Authors:
  • Bengtson, V I
  • Torres-Gil, F
  • Newquist, D
  • Simonin, M
• Publication Date: 1976-5

Media Info

• Pagination: 87 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aged; Anthropology; Culture (Social sciences); Decision making; Ethnic groups; Foreign; Level of service; Mobility; Passenger transportation; Persons by socioeconomic levels; Planning; Policy; Research; Surveys; Urban transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Services
• Geographic Terms: Mexico; Tanzania; Yugoslavia
• Old TRIS Terms: Social anthropology
• Subject Areas: Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; Research; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00168774
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: NSF/RA-770023
• Contract Numbers: NSF-APR75-21178
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 27 1981 12:00AM