A SURVEY OF QUALITY OF TABRIZ ELDERLY PEOPLES’ LEISURE SPACES IN BAGH-E-GHOLASTAN

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Journal: HOVIATESHAHR Year:2015 | Volume:9 | Issue:23 Page(s): 47-58

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A SURVEY OF QUALITY OF TABRIZ ELDERLY PEOPLES’ LEISURE SPACES IN BAGH-E-GHOLASTAN

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LEISURE TIMEQ2

GOLESTAN PARKQ2

URBAN SPACESQ2

ELDERLYQ2

TABRIZQ2

Abstract

Since the 18th century, developments in science and technology, improvements in medicine and quality of health services cause an increase in average life expectancy and because of this, the population of ELDERLY people have been increasing. This paper has paid attention to the ELDERLY leisure conditions in GOLESTAN PARK of TABRIZ as the most important for ELDERLY people in city of TABRIZ. However, ELDERLY people like other social groups require leisure spaces, but they face with a lot of problems due to lack deficiency of facilities. The ELDERLY, whether daily users or rare visitors of public space, are the most able to express their own needs; above all, they know precisely the obstacles and difficulties that they have to face daily in their territory. An involvement of older people in defining needs and consequently the objectives of a project is essential. This paper uses cross sectional survey-descriptive method for the analyses of 146 old people who have been selected randomly. The questionnaire and interview in a regular series of closed questions and check lists have been used to collecting data. In addition, physical and field observations and image provision from different places of the Park in a proper autumn weather are another part of collecting data. The descriptive and deductive statistics have been used in data analyze.The data collection tools included questionnaires about leisure spaces of ELDERLY people consisting of 17 questions about individuals and social characteristics, and 28 questions with 4 specific aims (including social and cultural, traffic and access way, equipment and installation and at the end views and plant cover ingredients) to appointment the situation of ELDERLY leisure GOLESTAN PARK of TABRIZ spaces. The survey has been done by interviewing and answering to the five scales of Likret (quite proper, rather proper, proper, inappropriate and quite inappropriate). The scores which have been obtained from the analysis of descriptive statistics, and Speraman Ro correlation and Kendall tests were analyzed in SPSS 13 software.65.8% of the ELDERLY people having 66 to 103 scores evaluated the quality of Golestan leisure space as half suitable and the remaining 22.6% giving the scores of 104 to 140 appraised the quality of these spaces as suitable. The mean of respondents’ scores and the standard deviation is respectively 2.1096 0.57683. Obtained results based on Spearman Ro and correlation and Kendall tests indicate that; there was a significant correlation between the scores of the sample individuals in terms of their response to questions relating to cultural and social dimensions, access to transportation, facilities, and finally the views and green spaces in Golestan ELDERLY park of TABRIZ (P<0.05). Thus, in order to enhance the attraction, and freshness of park expanding of social and cultural spaces of ELDERLY people, the spread of views and landscapes, particularly the overview of transportation spaces is recommended. Moreover, to increase the variety of types of spaces, the feeling of ownership and the reinforcement of community sense, the development of parks in quality and quantity aspects should be taken into considerations.

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MOHAMMADZADEH, RAHMAT. (2015). A SURVEY OF QUALITY OF TABRIZ ELDERLY PEOPLES’ LEISURE SPACES IN BAGH-E-GHOLASTAN. HOVIATESHAHR, 9(23), 47-58. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/154469/en

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MOHAMMADZADEH RAHMAT. A SURVEY OF QUALITY OF TABRIZ ELDERLY PEOPLES’ LEISURE SPACES IN BAGH-E-GHOLASTAN. HOVIATESHAHR[Internet]. 2015;9(23):47-58. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/154469/en

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RAHMAT MOHAMMADZADEH, “A SURVEY OF QUALITY OF TABRIZ ELDERLY PEOPLES’ LEISURE SPACES IN BAGH-E-GHOLASTAN,” HOVIATESHAHR, vol. 9, no. 23, pp. 47–58, 2015, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/154469/en

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