Older people's health, outdoor activity and supportiveness of neighbourhood environments

Public Open Space Development for Elderly People by Using the DANP-V Model to Establish Continuous Improvement Strategies towards a Sustainable and Healthy Aging Society

“…Nevertheless, this method can only address activities that people either perform or plan to perform, and it cannot elicit activities that people have decided not to perform [19]. Logistic regression has the advantage of solving the category attribute data [12,31], whereas conjoint analysis is helpful for understanding the relative importance of factors [13,49]. However, this statistical analysis method is based on the assumption that the factors are independent.…”

“…According to the WHO, health is defined as a state of complete physical, psychological, and social health and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Based on this definition, three potential mechanisms have been mentioned frequently, namely outdoor physical activity, contact with nature, and social interaction [19,31]. This study used these three potential mechanisms to discover correlative environmental attributes of POS (Figure 1).…”

The Built Environment and Walking Activity of the Elderly: An Empirical Analysis in the Zhongshan Metropolitan Area, China

“…Therefore, interventions involving the built environment have become a promising opportunity for the promotion of walking activity among the elderly [25,26]. In a recent systematic review mainly focusing on the western context, Van Cauwenberg et al [14] concluded that the following built environment features would impact the walking activity of the elderly, albeit to varied degrees: (1) walkability, e.g., residential density, land use mix diversity, and street connectivity [27,28]; (2) access to services, e.g., access to public transportation and recreational facilities [29,30]; (3) walking facilities, e.g., sidewalks and walking trails [29]; (4) safety, e.g., presence of heavy traffic and neighborhood crime-related safety [29]; (5) esthetics, e.g., greenery and scenery [31]; and (6) urbanization, e.g., the difference between urban and rural residents [32]. In terms of transportation (or utilitarian) walking, researchers [16,33] found that neighborhoods with higher density, greater connectivity, proximity of nonresidential destinations, and more land use mix reported higher rates of transportation walking than low-density, poorly connected, and single land use neighborhood.…”

The Development of an Enhanced Extension Agent Training to Create Butterfly Gardens in Louisiana

“…This evidence can be useful in relation to design recommendations and policy development for aged care, as such elements are conducive to maintaining and promoting the health and well-being of elderly residents (Sugiyama and Thompson 2007).…”