Cycling beyond your sixties: The role of cycling in later life and how it can be supported and promoted

Jones, Tim; Chatterjee, Kiron; Spencer, Ben; Jones, Heather

Abstract

© 2018 by Emerald Publishing Limited. Decision makers and authorities largely ignore cycling when conceptualising and developing programmes to support older mobility and therefore, unsurprisingly, levels of cycling in the United Kingdom are low compared to other northern European nations. Cycling has the potential to play an important role in the active ageing agenda and provide older citizens with a form of independent mobility that enhances personal health and wellbeing. The chapter provides evidence of the important role cycling does and could play in older people’s mobility and outlines ways in which older cycling could be supported and promoted.

• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2017
• Deposit Date: Feb 22, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 22, 2018
• Journal: Transport and Sustainability
• Electronic ISSN: 2044-995X
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 10
• Pages: 139-160
• Series Title: Transport and Sustainability
• Book Title: Transport, Travel and Later Life
• ISBN: 9781787146242
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S2044-994120170000010013
• Keywords: cycling, sixties, later life, supported, promoted
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/874745
• Publisher URL: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/S2044-994120170000010013
• Additional Information: Additional Information : This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published version is available at http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/S2044-994120170000010013.
• Contract Date: Feb 22, 2018