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Summary

Miami-Dade County (MDC) Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) manages federally required plans and transportation policies for Miami-Dade County. The MDC TPO is one of the lead agencies of the Miami-Dade Age-Friendly Initiative. The objective of this study MDC TPO Senior Living Facilities Road Audits is to evaluate traffic safety conditions and recommend improvements around senior living facilities that have been identified as priority locations to minimize the potential for future crash occurrences and severity by recommending improvements. The November 2017 Aging Road Users Strategic Safety Plan, completed by the MDC TPO, revealed that 11% of all crashes in MDC between 2008-2014 occurred within ¼ mile of older adult living centers. With the increasing trend in the overall number of crashes involving 65 and older road users and continuously growing older adult population in the state, the MDC TPO recognizes the need to further investigate road conditions and identify locations to invest in improved safety for older adults.

Website: https://agefriendlymiami.org/project/miami-dade-tpo-senior-living-facilities-road-audit/

Key facts

Main target group: Older people in general

Sector(s): Transportation, Urban development

Other sector(s): Road Safety

Desired outcome for older people:
Be mobile

Other issues the Age-friendly practice aims to address:
  • Accessibility
  • Ageing in place
  • Healthy behaviours (e.g. physical activity)
  • Participation

Contact details

Name: Isabel Rovira

Email address: isabel@urbanhp.org

Age-friendly practice in detail (click to expand):

Engaging the wider community

Project lead: Local authorities

Others involved in the project:
  • Local authorities
  • Civil Society Organisation

Older people’s involvement: Older people were involved in the age-friendly practice at multiple or all stages

Details on older people’s involvement: The Study Advisory Committee (SAC) conducted the outreach to the older adult living facilities, presented the data collected and gathered information regarding safety concerns from the older adult living facilities’ residents and staff.

Moving forward

Has the impact of this age-friendly practice been analysed: No

Do you plan to evaluate your age-friendly practice? Yes

Expansion plans:
The MDC TPO analyzed the crash data in the vicinity of over 140 older adult residential living centers and applied a weighted scoring system considering total crashes and crashes involving 65 and older road users within ¼ mile of an older adult living facility. The results of the scoring were a field analysis priority list of assisted living sites. Centers at the top of the priority list were considered “Tier 1” sites. Road Safety Audits (RSAs) were recommended to be conducted at the Tier 1 sites followed by Tier 2 and 3 if resources allow.

Looking back

Challenges:
One of the challenges was working within a set budget to complete all of the Road Safety Audits (RSAs) at all of the sites. With the budget limitations, it was recommended to do the RSAs with a tiered approach, starting with the Tier 1 sites which had the most crashes.