Person-environment relationships become particularly important in later life. Our discussion
of challenges in the assessment of experiential person-environment exchange processes is …

To advance the field of environmental gerontology and make it more relevant to other social
and behavioral scientists, this paper proposes a holistic, emotion-based theoretical model to …

This study examines objective housing indicators and their relationships with subjective
housing quality evaluations for a representative national sample of independent elderly …

Adopting a strongly psychological perspective, Oswald and Wahl focus on the dual and
reciprocal themes of belonging and agency. Using data from the European Enabling …

The study of home environments is a research domain within the field of environmental
gerontology that addresses issues related to aging in place. Despite the importance of aging …

Purpose This paper reconsiders the existing conceptual frameworks and models in
environmental gerontology and takes a step forward towards a comprehensive and …

A diversity of converging arguments supports the assumption that the environment matters
as people age. The time budget and action range argument refers to the fact that the home …

During the 1970s, American gerontologist M. Powell Lawton and colleagues saw the person–
environment system as fundamental to defining the quality of later life. They proposed the …

The aim of this article is to introduce an integrative and more comprehensive approach to
understanding and measuring perceived housing in old age. First, four conceptual domains …

Since the early 1990s, we have engaged in the development of methodology for the
assessment of person-environment fit in housing and the determination of how such …