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March 15, 2026BuildingsOpen Access

Health-Oriented Evaluation of Park Walking Environments for Older Adults: Developing an Age-Friendly Assessment Tool Across Multiple Park Types

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XLXiaoyu LiRCRunyao ChenYLYuntong Luo

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Overview

Field assessment reveals safety and accessibility variations in parks, suggesting health equity implications for older adults.

Key Points

  • The research aims to develop an assessment tool to evaluate age-friendly park environments for older adults.
  • Case study in Beilin, Xi’an
  • Development of an assessment tool using Health Impact Assessment framework
  • Evaluation based on multi-source data and quantitative analysis
  • Safety perceived as most important for older adults, with a weight of 0.49
  • Urban comprehensive park scored highest at 84.87 in safety and comfort
  • Historic–cultural park had the lowest score at 66.03, showing significant deficits

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Li et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69b5ff3b83145bc643d1b6e1https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings16061136
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