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S&M3348 Research Paper of Special Issue (B) https://doi.org/10.18494/SAM4385 Published: July 31, 2023 Spatial Layout Monitoring and Optimizationof Elderly Care Facilities [PDF] Wei-Ling Hsu, Yuanyuan Lu, Zhiyong Ouyang, Zuorong Dong, and Hsin-Lung Liu (Received March 13, 2023; Accepted July 6, 2023) Keywords: elderly care service facilities, equality, spatial analysis, geographic information system (GIS), Guangzhou
With numerous aging societies worldwide, the world is facing a rapidly growing and already large elderly population. Elderly care facilities have become an important topic. Hence, it is urgent to examine the layouts of public elderly care service facilities, conduct rational planning, and promote the efficient utilization of facility resources. By constructing a Service Demand Equality-Frame Model and performing visualizations based on Geographic Information Systems (GISs), we assessed the degrees of spatial equilibrium between the service capacities of public elderly care services and the demand for them. The spatial accessibility and equality of hospitals, communities, and elderly care facilities in Guangzhou’s four main urban districts (Yuexiu, Liwan, Haizhu, and Tianhe) were subjected to scientific evaluation. The results have validated the effectiveness of the econometric model. According to GIS-based visualization, the spatial accessibility distributions of these public facilities are uneven with large gaps between subdistricts. Accessibility peaked in Yuexiu but gradually declined from the city center and Yuexiu to the surrounding areas. We investigated the best quantitative approaches for measuring the spatial accessibility distributions of public facilities such as hospitals and communities to improve spatial layout monitoring and optimization of elderly care facilities.
Corresponding author: Zhiyong Ouyang and Hsin-Lung LiuThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Cite this article Wei-Ling Hsu, Yuanyuan Lu, Zhiyong Ouyang, Zuorong Dong, and Hsin-Lung Liu, Spatial Layout Monitoring and Optimizationof Elderly Care Facilities, Sens. Mater., Vol. 35, No. 7, 2023, p. 2681-2703. |