Modeling Accessibility of Screening and Treatment Facilities for Older Adults using Transportation Networks.

ABSTRACT: Increased lifespans and population growth have resulted in an older U.S. society that must reckon with the complex oral health needs that arise as adults age. Understanding accessibility to screening and treatment facilities for older adults is necessary in order to provide them with preventive and restorative services. This study uses an agent-based model to examine the accessibility of screening and treatment facilities via transportation networks for older adults living in the neighborhoods of northern Manhattan, New York City. Older adults are simulated as socioeconomically distinct agents who move along a GIS-based transportation network using transportation modes that mediate their access to screening and treatment facilities. This simulation model includes four types of mobile agent

SUBMITTER: Zhang Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5856470 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature