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Pension facilities are a vital component of the social public service system, and their equity is a critical issue in environmental justice studies. Prior studies have primarily focused on commercial and profit-oriented comprehensive elderly care facilities, yet there has been less attention paid to environmental exposures during travel to and from pension facilities for the elderly who primarily age at home. This study employs Shanghai as a case study, identifies the spatial distribution of community pension facilities, including day care facilities, assisted living service points, senior activity rooms, and employs the supply-demand adjusted two-step floating catchment area model (2SFCA)to analyze the elderly’s subjective preferences and psychological accessibility. It assesses equity of access to pension facilities from two dimensions: spatial equity and environmental equity. Secondly, Assessing the environmental equity of pension facilities by analyzing the environmental exposure of the travel trajectories of the elderly to various pension facilities. The results of the study demonstrate that there are significant differences in the accessibility of different types of community pension facilities, and the causes of the supply-demand imbalance are distinct. The study will provide a visual representation of areas of inequity in the supply and demand of pension facilities, as well as the environmental exposure bias to and from pension facilities. The results will provide valuable insights for optimizing them in future planning of pension facilities, as well as enhance the health benefits of the elderly.
| Keywords | pension facilities; accessibility; environmental equity; environmental exposure;2SFCA |
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| Best Congress Paper Award | Yes |
