Life-space mobility and relevant factors in community-dwelling individuals with stroke in Japan: a cross-sectional study

H Tashiro, T Isho, T Takeda, T Nakamura… - Progress in …, 2019 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Objective: Individuals with stroke frequently experience mobility deficits and limited
community reintegration. This study aimed to investigate life-space mobility and relevant …

There's no place like home? The psychological, physiological, and cognitive effects of short visits to outdoor urban environments compared to staying in the indoor …

D Saadi, I Schnell, E Tirosh, X Basagaña… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background The home environment is regarded as a safe, comfortable environment,
however, home can also be a stressful place. Compared to staying in the indoor home …

Validity of a single question to assess habitual physical activity of community‐dwelling older people

E Portegijs, S Sipilä, A Viljanen… - … Journal of Medicine …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The aim is to determine concurrent validity of a single self‐report habitual physical activity
(PA) question against accelerometer‐based PA and mobility variables, and corresponding …

Life-space mobility and clinical outcomes in COPD

AS Iyer, JM Wells, SP Bhatt, NP Kirkpatrick… - … Journal of Chronic …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Background Social isolation is a common experience in patients with COPD but is not
captured by existing patient-reported outcomes, and its association with clinical outcomes is …

The saliency of geographical landmarks for community navigation: A photovoice study with persons living with dementia

K Seetharaman, MM Shepley, C Cheairs - Dementia, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This study uses the photovoice method to explore how persons living with mild-to-moderate
dementia perceive neighborhood landmarks and identify characteristics that render these …

Personal goals and changes in life-space mobility among older people

M Saajanaho, M Rantakokko, E Portegijs… - Preventive …, 2015 - Elsevier
Objective Life-space mobility–the spatial extent of mobility in daily life–is associated with
quality of life and physical functioning but may also be influenced by future orientation …

Independent living with mobility restrictions: older people's perceptions of their out-of-home mobility

H Luoma-Halkola, L Häikiö - Ageing & Society, 2022 - cambridge.org
We studied older people's perceptions of how they organise their out-of-home mobility and
independent living when they face mobility restrictions, based on seven focus groups with …

Urban Therapy—Urban Health Path as an Innovative Urban Function to Strengthen the Psycho-Physical Condition of the Elderly

A Szewczenko, E Lach, N Bursiewicz… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The current approach to stimulating elderly physical activity mostly uses medical
rehabilitation methods or popular forms of outdoor recreation. In the context of an ageing …

Perceived environmental barriers to outdoor mobility and changes in sense of autonomy in participation outdoors among older people: a prospective two-year cohort …

M Rantakokko, E Portegijs, A Viljanen… - Aging & mental …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: The aim was to study whether perceived environmental barriers to outdoor
mobility affect changes in sense of autonomy in participation outdoors among community …

The temporal association between executive function and life-space mobility in old age

T Poranen-Clark, MB von Bonsdorff… - The Journals of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background Life-space mobility, an indicator of community mobility, describes person's
movements in terms of the distance from home, the frequency of movement, and the need of …