ELDERLY PEOPLE AND THEIR WALKABILITY IN THE SEMI URBAN ENVIRONMENT- SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THANJAVUR, TAMILNADU, INDIA.

Abstract

Sense of socio, community is often mentioned as an asset of new urbanism. The purpose of the study was to explore by studying the on impact of socio community support gained by the elderly people and their walkability Thanjavaur north, a semi-urban environment. Three domains of sense of community were examined, with different aspects of the physical environment, through surveys (questionnaire) as well as interviews with residents. The findings related with social and community perspective suggest that irrespective their present and previous occupations, old age people in the study area are participating in all social activities, the respondents are receiving the community support equally in both joint and nuclear families. As the socio community support pave an appropriate way to reach the destination through walking, it has been concluded that all the streets have same access to the old age people for their desired destination and there is no significant difference between different age categories with regard to destinations presented by walkability by applying different statistical tools Frequency analysis, ANOVA, T- test, cross tabulation, regression analysis.