Neighborhood walkability: older people's perspectives from four neighborhoods in Ottawa, Canada

TL Grant, N Edwards, H Sveistrup… - Journal of aging …, 2010 - journals.humankinetics.com
… a more thorough understanding of older people’s neighborhood walking experiences with
an … to allow older people’s voices to broaden our understanding of neighborhood walkability. …

Neighborhood walkability, walking difficulties, and participation in leisure activities among older people: a cross-sectional study and 4-year follow-up of a subsample

EM Tuomola, KE Keskinen, A Viljanen… - Journal of aging …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
… In this study, older people living in the highest walkability area participated more frequently
in cultural or other individual activities such as going to concerts, the theater, or coffee shops. …

[HTML][HTML] Neighborhood walkability, physical activity, and walking for transportation: A cross-sectional study of older adults living on low income

AM Chudyk, HA McKay, M Winters, J Sims-Gould… - BMC geriatrics, 2017 - Springer
… Although often overlooked, physical activity at levels below guidelines is important to the
general health, mobility and community engagement of older people. For example, total …

Talking while walking: an investigation of perceived neighbourhood walkability and its implications for the social life of older people

S Alidoust, C Bosman, G Holden - Journal of housing and the built …, 2018 - Springer
… has focused on older people’s perceived walkability of MPC … Older people’s perception of
the walkability of different built-… neighbourhood walkability to the social life of older people is …

[HTML][HTML] Relationship between neighborhood walkability and older adults' physical activity: results from the Belgian Environmental Physical Activity Study in Seniors …

V Van Holle, J Van Cauwenberg, D Van Dyck… - International journal of …, 2014 - Springer
neighborhood walkability and older adults’ objective and self-reported PA levels. A second
aim was to examine the moderating effect of neighborhood income on these relationships. …

Neighborhood walkability and health outcomes among older adults: The mediating role of physical activity

J Van Cauwenberg, V Van Holle, I De Bourdeaudhuij… - Health & place, 2016 - Elsevier
… US older adults for which high neighborhood walkability was associated with more MVPA
and a lower self-reported BMI independent of neighborhood … between walkability and health …

[HTML][HTML] The associations between neighborhood walkability attributes and objectively measured physical activity in older adults

BI Chen, MC Hsueh, R Rutherford, JH Park, Y Liao - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
… Five neighborhood walkability attributes, which had previously been found to … neighborhood
walkability elements reported from previous studies [31,32]. These environmental walkability

Aging in neighborhoods differing in walkability and income: associations with physical activity and obesity in older adults

AC King, JF Sallis, LD Frank, BE Saelens, K Cain… - Social science & …, 2011 - Elsevier
… among objectively measured neighborhood design, mobility … older adults living in
neighborhoods differing in walkability … to maximize variability in walkability and income. …

[HTML][HTML] Promoting active urban aging: A measurement approach to neighborhood walkability for older adults

RL Weiss, JA Maantay, M Fahs - Cities and the Environment, 2010 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Neighborhood walkability is a broad concept designed to evaluate a range of built
environment features using a composite index or scale which facilitates area-based comparisons. …

[HTML][HTML] Functional limitations and perceived neighborhood walkability among urban dwelling older adults

R Suzuki, J Blackwood, NJ Webster… - Frontiers in public health, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… perceptions of neighborhood walkability among older adults … To be eligible, participants had
to be 65 years of age or older, … Older adults with FLs were significantly (p < 0.05) less likely …