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With the rapid demographic shift towards an ageing society, it is a concerted effort to facilitate elderly's access to healthcare in order to maintain and improve their quality of life. In China, hospital care services dominate the healthcare market, which requires a better understanding of accessibility to hospitals in order to rationally allocate resources in spatial and land use planning. However, little attention has been paid to analysing the geographical accessibility to hospitals specific to the elderly population.

The objective of this study is to examine the spatial access to multi-tier – primary, secondary, and tertiary – hospital care services for older adults with an explicit focus on equity – the (un)even distribution of geographical accessibility.

Building on the revealed travel patterns of elderly's medical trips, this study measures the level of accessibility at the sub-district level and assesses the …