Abstract
Worldwide, the population is aging at a gradually increasing speed, due to a decrease in the population and the development of medical facilities and technology. Due to the rapid aging of the population, social infrastructure will also need to be transformed into convenient facilities for the elderly. Walking facilities have been manufactured based on body size measured for general adults. Accordingly, it is necessary to prepare a new design standard suitable for the characteristics of the elderly. It is very difficult to establish standardized values for the elderly because there is a large difference in gait characteristics as well as body size. Therefore, in this study, gait characteristics were measured for the elderly with the standard physique of the elderly in Korea, and the measured gait characteristic variable values were converted into dimensionless numbers to calculate coefficients with more representativeness. The calculated coefficient is expected to be more universally applied and utilized because factors that may affect it depending on the size of the body are removed. When designing a walking facility, the average body size is applied to convert it back into necessary walking attribute information (including units), and this is presented as an example from Korea. It is expected that the presented results can be used to design more suitable and safe pedestrian facilities for an aging society.
Highlights
Cavas MartínezAccording to CNN Money [1], an aging society is one in which people over 65 years old constitute 7% of the total population, an aged society is one where this figure is over 14%, Received: 7 September 2021 and a post-aged or super-aged society is one where it is over 20%
It is shown that compared to previous studies, the results from this study showed relatively better gait capacity in four gait factors except cadence
The standard gait model for the elderly defined in this study for the application of the pedestrian facilities design to prepare for super-aged society conditions is as follows
Summary
According to CNN Money [1], an aging society is one in which people over 65 years old constitute 7% of the total population, an aged society is one where this figure is over 14%, Received: 7 September 2021 and a post-aged or super-aged society is one where it is over 20%. Since it qualified as an Accepted: 13 November 2021 aging society in 2000, South Korea’s population has been rapidly aging, and it became an Published: 15 November 2021 aged society in 2017. 2 ofprepare population of the elderly will continue to grow and, it is necessary to published maps and institutional affilsocial infrastructure and facilities for the elderly to ensure their safety and comfort. iations.
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