The Relationship between the Geographic Distribution of the Elderly in Urayasu-shi and the Accessibility of Medical and Commercial Facilities for the Elderly

Abstract

This paper empirically analyzes the relationship between the geographic distribution of the elderly in Urayasu-shi and the accessibility of medical and commercial facilities for the elderly. First, under the assumption that population distribution is proportional to accessibility, we estimate how the accessibility changes as the distances to the facilities change. Second, it is shown that the accessibility for the elderly is more related to road distance than to direct distance, and decreases drastically as the road distances are larger. By extension, it implies that elderly people actually live closer to medical and commercial facilities than overall population do. Last, we conclude with future work.