Good places for ageing in place: development of objective built environment measures for investigating links with older people's wellbeing.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is renewed interest in the role of the built environment in public health. Relatively little research to date investigates its impact on healthy ageing. Ageing in place has been adopted as a key strategy for coping with the challenges of longevity. What is needed is a better understanding of how individual characteristics of older people's residential environments (from front door to wider neighbourhood) contribute to their wellbeing, in order to provide the basis for evidence-based housing/urban design and development of interventions. This research aimed to develop a tool to objectively measure a large range of built environment characteristics, as the basis for a preliminary study of potential relationships with a number of 'place-related' functional, emotional

SUBMITTER: Burton EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3214925 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature