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Playing In Place: An Analysis of Enabling and Limiting Play Environments Through the Lens of Older Adults in Victoria, B.C.

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正題名/作者:	Playing In Place: An Analysis of Enabling and Limiting Play Environments Through the Lens of Older Adults in Victoria, B.C./
作者:	Vincent, Ellory.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2023,
面頁冊數:	114 p.
附註:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 84-12.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International84-12.
標題:	Older people. -
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ISBN:	9798379654443

Playing In Place: An Analysis of Enabling and Limiting Play Environments Through the Lens of Older Adults in Victoria, B.C.
Vincent, Ellory.

Playing In Place: An Analysis of Enabling and Limiting Play Environments Through the Lens of Older Adults in Victoria, B.C. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023 - 114 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 84-12.

Thesis (M.U.P.)--Queen's University (Canada), 2023.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Populations around the world are aging-fast. People are living longer now than at any other point in history, and more often than not they are living in cities (UN, 2020). This unprecedented shift has led many to question whether cities are ready to meet the needs of an aging population. Aging often results in shrinking social, physical, and cognitive life spaces (Greenfield et al., 2012). This makes older adults as a demographic more vulnerable to experiences of loneliness and social isolation. While many planners and academics are focused on the ways in which older adults can age-in-place, being confined to the four walls of home does little to address the issue of isolation. Rather it is the surrounding physical environment that plays a defining role in determining older adult health and wellbeing (Black and Jester, 2020). Because older adults are more likely to spend time in their homes and immediate neighbourhood than other age groups, they are particularly vulnerable to experiencing barriers that limit their participation in the physical environment.One overlooked approach to improving older adult wellbeing is play. Play improves community relations, mental wellbeing, and physical health (Kerr and Apter, 1991). As a result, play is well-suited to address older adult loneliness and isolation. Yet, common societal conceptions of play frame it as a child's activity, without the acknowledgment that humans are instinctively playful (Huizinga, 1950), and that play can extend throughout one's lifecycle into older adulthood (Donoff and Bridgman, 2017). Play has only recently been recognized as an urban design consideration capable of shaping and improving daily interactions and experiences (Donoff and Bridgman, 2017). But it has yet to be considered as an age-friendly planning intervention. Built environments designed for play can go beyond narrowly designated structures and age-compartmentalized activities. There is an opportunity to instead conceptualize and actualize play as an important addition to the built form that can inspire happiness and playfulness (Donoff and Bridgman, 2017).The overarching questions behind this report are: How do older adults view play in public spaces? What kind of environments cultivate play? And what kind of environments suppress it? Three research objectives were designed to address these overarching questions: (1) Determine older adult perceptions of play in public spaces through a participatory photovoice process; (2) Analyze the relationship between older adults' perceptions of play and public play space planning and design, and; (3) Develop recommendations to design public play spaces so as to enable older adult play.The report is based around the single case study of older adult play in Victoria, BC. Victoria was selected as the location of the study as it is Canada's demographically older city with over 23% of the city's population being over the age of 65 in 2021 - considerably higher than the national average of 19% (Statistics Canada 2022a; 2022b). The study employs the participatory research method of photovoice to get a look into the world of an older adult to examine the environments which they find to be limiting or enabling of play. Fourteen participants over the age of 65 years were recruited to take part in the study. Participants each captured two photos of environments that enabled them to play and two photos of environments that limited their ability to play. Three in-person focus groups were conducted in May of 2022 in which participants were given the opportunity to share their photos, conceptions of play, and experiences in enabling and limiting play environments.

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