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

Status of Publication: Published/Completed
Date produced: 2017
Commissioned/Funded by: UK Research Council's Life-Long Health and Wellbeing programme
Authoring organisation/Author affiliation: Oxford Brookes University;University of the West of England;Cycle BOOM
Individual author(s): Jones, T., Chatterjee, K., Spencer, B., Jones, H.
Type of Resource: Research
Impairment area(s): Pan-impairment
Transport mode(s): Cycling
Journey stage: Unspecified
Region: United Kingdom (not specified)

Document summary

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.

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