Introduction to Senior Transportation

Name: Introduction to Senior Transportation
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781138959996
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Enhancing Community Mobility and Transportation Services

By Helen K. Kerschner and Nina M. Silverstein

Series: Textbooks in Aging

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Introduction to Senior Transportation addresses the growing concern of community mobility needs among older adults. It explores the challenges seniors face transitioning from driving to various transportation options, considering their physical and cognitive limitations. The book covers a range of transportation services and the difficulties providers encounter in supporting senior passengers, highlighting methods that do and do not meet their requirements.

Designed for faculty, students, and practitioners in aging, transportation, and related fields, this textbook offers practical learning tools and complements courses in gerontology, human development, human factors, social behavioural sciences, traffic safety, transit engineering, and community planning.
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This book is ideal for students, educators, and professionals in gerontology, ageing services, transportation planning, and related social and behavioural sciences seeking to understand and improve transportation options for older adults.

This textbook introduces the challenges faced by older adults as they transition from driving themselves to using various transportation options, emphasizing the physical and cognitive limitations of older passengers.

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Introduction to Senior Transportation focuses on an issue that is a growing concern—the community mobility needs of older adults. Surpassing the coverage available in existing gerontology textbooks, it enables the reader to understand and appreciate the challenges faced by older adults as they make the transition from driving to using transportation options, many of which were not designed to meet their particular needs. It considers the physical and cognitive limitations of older adult passengers, the family of transportation services, the challenges providers face in meeting the assistance and support needs of senior passengers, and the transportation methods that do and do not currently meet the needs and wants of senior passengers.

This textbook addresses the educational and professional development needs of faculty, students, and practitioners working in the fields of aging, aging services, and transportation. The book has been class-tested and features innovative, practical learning tools that appeal to students and practitioners. It complements any introductory course in gerontology, human development and aging, or human factors, and will enhance the curriculum of programmes in the social behavioural sciences as well as traffic safety, transit engineering, and community planning.

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Introduction to Senior Transportation

By Helen K. Kerschner and Nina M. Silverstein

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David W. Eby, University of Michigan, USA: "This book provides a detailed curriculum to train future leaders in senior mobility, addressing an increasingly important issue as societies age."

Michelle M. Porter, University of Manitoba, Canada: "A comprehensive and vital textbook that combines extensive information with classroom questions and activities, helping older adults maintain mobility."

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138959996

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 February 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 21 Tables, black and white; 3 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: Tertiary education

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Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 310g

Pages: 198

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Education & Reference Helen K. Kerschner Nina M. Silverstein Non-Fiction Science & Nature Series: Textbooks in Aging

About the Author

Helen K. Kerschner has more than thirty-five years of experience in health, aging, transportation, and international development. Her career has included positions in university settings, corporate America, the federal government, and nonprofits. She is Director of the National Volunteer Transportation Center of the Community Transportation Association of America, Washington, DC. Formerly, she was President and CEO of the Beverly Foundation, which conducted research, demonstration, and education to foster new ideas and options for enhancing mobility and transportation for today’s and tomorrow’s older population.

Nina M. Silverstein is Professor of Gerontology, University of Massachusetts Boston. She is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and has held leadership roles in that organization, the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, and the Alzheimer’s Association. She has published on the impact of dementia on home, community, institutional and acute care settings and on a broad range of issues in gerontology. Her primary research interests relate to transportation and aging with a special focus on dementia.

Introduction to Senior Transportation