Abstract:
To understand how urban parks can best promote elderly well-being and build elderly-friendly cities, quantitative research on how different urban park landscape spaces affect elderly well-being was studied in this paper. Taking Chaoyang Park in Beijing as the object of study, 6 major types and 12 minor types of landscape spaces were selected as experimental samples. Physiological indexes were measured and psychological-gradient forms Profile of Mood States and Perceived Restorative Scale were filled out after elderly persons experiencing different landscape spaces. AHP and Delphi methods were used to evaluate the physiological and psychological indexes and to obtain index weights. Through variance, relevance, and comparative analyses, the physical and mental health recovery factors in park landscape spaces were ranked. Data analysis shows that dense forests, flower fields, and stream landscapes produce the best results on elderly physical and psychological well-being. Well-equipped areas with more blue and green colors are great for the elderly's mental and physical recovery. The measure methods of gender, age, and physiological index also affect the results to varying degrees. Since different spaces impact elderly mental and physical well-being differently, maintaining a proper ratio of various urban park landscape spaces and a targeted complementation of landscape elements would be most conducive to the improvement of the physical and mental health of the elderly and would give the fullest play to the health benefits of urban parks.