Host: The City Planning Institute of Japan
In this study, a questionnaire survey is conducted for elderly people in the Osaki-Kamishima Island, which has suffered from depopulation and population aging. Structural Equation Models are built to analyze relationship between mobility and quality of life. By using these models, the following results are shown. First, if improvement of the mobility makes easy access to the medical facilities and makes exchange with people easier, quality of life of the elderly people can be better. Second, a further population ageing can make a situation that change in evaluation of the mobility gives bigger influence to easiness to use the medical facilities, exchange with people and quality of life of them.
