Evaluation of welfare effectiveness on age-friendly ecological walking environment

The rapid increase in ageing population and the practice of industrial social pension systems have elders become an important group. It therefore becomes a primary issue for current government and the citizens to face the ageing society. Due to the change of demographic structure, the accessible and age-friendly ecological living environment should be created in communities to implement the local ageing idea, especially to provide elders with adequate public facilities to cope with the needs in the ageing society. Aiming at Fuzhou City of Fujian Province as the research object, the variables used in this study are acquired from public statistics. Data Envelopment Analysis is applied in this study to evaluate the efficiency. The research results show that 1. one DMU presents strong efficiency, 5DMUs reveal marginal inefficiency, and 7 DMUs appear obvious inefficiency and 2. the two-period change improvement of all counties/cities are found out with Malmquist productivity index analysis. Finally, suggestions are proposed, according to the results, to provide local governments with reference for future planning of age-friendly ecological environment welfare facilities.