The Uncommon Impact of Common Environmental Details on Walking in Older Adults.
The Uncommon Impact of Common Environmental Details on Walking in Older Adults.
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DOI：
10.3390/ijerph14020190
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发表时间：
2017-02-14
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通讯作者：
Scott I
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作者：
Brookfield K;Ward Thompson C;Scott I
散步是老年人最常见的身体活动形式。老年人的步行行为与客观和感知的社区和街道级环境属性有关，例如路面质量和混合土地利用。为了帮助识别步行环境的组成部分，本文检查了其中一些环境属性，并探讨了它们对该人群步行行为的影响。它利用焦点小组和访谈数据收集22个有目的地抽样老年人年龄在60岁及以上。这些参与者表现出一系列功能和认知障碍，包括中风和痴呆。根据过去的研究，我们详细介绍了城市环境的各种日常方面，如台阶，路缘石和不平坦的人行道，结合与人有关的因素，使老年人的户外活动复杂化，而其他方面，如扶手和长凳，似乎支持甚至鼓励运动。重要的是，我们描绘的流动性选择的看法的影响。我们发现，在某些情况下，老年人从环境的各个方面（如街道摄像头和地下通道）获得的意义和可能性，而不是这些方面本身，塑造了行为。政策和实践的影响被认为是。
Walking is the most common form of physical activity amongst older adults. Older adults’ walking behaviors have been linked to objective and perceived neighborhood and street-level environmental attributes, such as pavement quality and mixed land uses. To help identify components of walkable environments, this paper examines some of these environmental attributes and explores their influence on this population’s walking behaviors. It draws on focus group and interview data collected from 22 purposively sampled older adults aged 60 years and over. These participants presented a range of functional and cognitive impairments including stroke and dementia. In line with past research, we detail how various everyday aspects of urban environments, such as steps, curbs and uneven pavements, can, in combination with person-related factors, complicate older adults’ outdoor mobility while others, such as handrails and benches, seem to support and even encourage movement. Importantly, we delineate the influence of perceptions on mobility choices. We found that, in some instances, it is the meanings and possibilities that older adults derive from aspects of the environment, such as street cameras and underpasses, rather than the aspects per se, which shape behavior. The implications for policy and practice are considered.