Analysis And Optimization Of The Leisure Characteristics Of The Elderly In Mountain Town Community From The Perspective Of Social Network

With the continuous deepening of aging in China,the contradiction between the leisure space and leisure activity needs of the elderly in urban communities is becoming increasingly prominent,and has become a key focus area for improving the quality of life of urban and rural residents.Based on this contradiction,China’s The Fourteenth Five-Year Plan clearly proposes to attach great importance to the aging population problem in current society,improve community elderly care services,and promote the improvement of aging public facilities.Due to the large terrain height difference in mountainous towns,the contradiction between elderly leisure space and leisure activities within the community is more prominent,becoming an urgent social problem that needs to be solved in the community.Therefore,improving the level of elderly care facilities and service quality in mountainous cities has become an important research topic.In addition,existing research on leisure spaces for the elderly mainly focuses on independent "point like" spaces,lacking systematic network research on leisure spaces.Therefore,it is necessary to conduct systematic research from the levels of points,axes,and networks.Based on this,this study analyzes the network structure of leisure space in mountainous urban communities from the perspective of social networks,optimizes the network structure of leisure space in urban communities,and provides theoretical support and practical basis for improving the quality of life of the elderly,enhancing their community happiness,and promoting healthy aging in society.Based on the above ideas,this study selects the Bin-jiang community in Yun-yang County,a typical mountainous urban community,and uses social network analysis method to construct a leisure space network and leisure activity network for the elderly in the community,analyze the characteristics of the elderly leisure space network and the elderly leisure activity network,explore the supply-demand balance relationship between the two networks,and propose an optimization and transformation plan for the future elderly leisure space network in Bin-jiang Community,Yun-yang County.The main research conclusions are as follows:(1)In the leisure space network of the elderly,the overall completeness,integration,and correlation are all at low levels.The limitations of the service radius of community level leisure space,the edge distribution pattern of community level leisure space,the large terrain slope,and the enclosed building mode are the main reasons for its low level.The leisure space network of the elderly has a significant geographical proximity clustering effect in the western,central,and eastern parts of the community.The core position of community parks and squares in each cluster is prominent,and they are closely connected to the leisure space of surrounding neighborhoods.The node status of community parks and community squares is generally high,which has a prominent leading role in the formation of leisure space networks for the elderly.The node status of community parks and community squares,the node status of adjacent street leisure spaces at road intersections,and the node status of street leisure spaces at non road intersections show a decreasing trend in sequence.Community parks and squares play a prominent leading role in the formation of the leisure space network for the elderly,while neighborhood leisure space plays a certain supporting role in the formation of the leisure space network for the elderly.The leisure function,spatial location,and architectural mode are the main reasons for the differences in the status of elderly leisure space nodes.(2)In the leisure activity network of the elderly,the overall integration is at a moderate level,but the completeness and correlation are at a relatively low level.The leisure activity network for the elderly has a geographical clustering effect in the western,central,and eastern regions.The main leisure activity paths for the elderly within the group are Bin-jiang Park 1—Neighborhood Leisure Space—Sports Square,Bin-jiang Park 2—Neighborhood Leisure Space—Xin-feng Square,Bin-jiang Park 3—Neighborhood Leisure Space—Yangtze River Bridge Head Square,Ban-jiang Park—Neighborhood Leisure Space—Spontaneous Leisure Space,Spontaneous Leisure Space—Neighborhood Leisure Space—Mo-zi-ling Square,Spontaneous Leisure Space—Neighborhood Leisure Space—Bai-yang-wan Square Spontaneous Leisure Space—Neighborhood Leisure Space—Yangtze River Bridge Square,Spontaneous Leisure Space—Neighborhood Leisure Space—Neighborhood Leisure Space.In community parks and squares,elderly people mainly engage in leisure activities such as sitting,jogging,walking,playing cards,playing chess,chatting,practicing Tai Chi,dancing square dance,playing softball,playing flower sticks,and dancing social dances.In the neighborhood leisure space and spontaneous leisure space,elderly people mainly engage in leisure activities such as chatting,playing chess and cards,and exercising with equipment.(3)There is an imbalance in supply and demand between elderly leisure space and leisure activities.Specifically,Bin-jiang Park 1,Bin-jiang Park 3,Mo-zi-ling Square,Bai-yang-wan Square,Sports Square and Yangtze River Bridgehead Square generally have the disadvantage of location marginalization,which results in the low reachability of these leisure spaces and generally cannot meet the reachability needs of the elderly in the community for leisure activities.Secondly,a part of the leisure space in the central community has the disadvantage of insufficient venue openness,which generally cannot meet the convenience needs of elderly people in neighboring neighborhoods for leisure space.In addition,another part of the leisure space in the middle of the community not only has the disadvantage of insufficient venue openness,but also has functional disadvantages such as relatively single and outdated internal supporting facilities,crowded venues,damaged floors,and occupied roads due to debris,which generally cannot meet the needs of elderly people in the community for leisure activities.At the same time,there is a lack of spontaneous leisure space in the community,which cannot provide convenient leisure space for the daily life of the elderly.(4)The leisure space network for the elderly needs to be optimized from three aspects: overall structure,connection efficiency,and node function.From the perspective of overall,it is necessary to add duplex leisure space and spontaneous leisure space to optimize the overall network structure.From the perspective of connectivity,it is necessary to increase dedicated bus routes,enhance the walking capacity of stone stairs,and construct convenient facilities to improve the efficiency of network connectivity.From the perspective of nodes,it is necessary to improve the availability of leisure venues and the applicability of supporting facilities,in order to enhance the aging function of network nodes.