Quality of life and barriers in the urban outdoor environment in old age

M Rantakokko, S Iwarsson… - Journal of the …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
OBJECTIVES: To examine the association between barriers in the outdoor environment and
perceived quality of life (QoL) in old age and to assess whether fear of moving outdoors and …

Fear of moving outdoors and development of outdoor walking difficulty in older people

M Rantakokko, M Mänty, S Iwarsson… - Journal of the …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
OBJECTIVES: To study which individual characteristics and environmental factors correlate
with fear of moving outdoors and whether fear of moving outdoors predicts development of …

Direct and indirect associations between the built environment and leisure and utilitarian walking in older women

PJ Troped, K Tamura, MH McDonough… - Annals of behavioral …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Background The built environment predicts walking in older adults, but the degree to which
associations between the objective built environment and walking for different purposes are …

How often and how far do frail elderly people need to go outdoors to maintain functional capacity?

H Shimada, T Ishizaki, M Kato, A Morimoto… - Archives of gerontology …, 2010 - Elsevier
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the frequency of going
outdoors into the life-space and functional impairment in community-living frail elderly …

Associations between environmental characteristics and life-space mobility in community-dwelling older people

M Rantakokko, S Iwarsson, E Portegijs… - Journal of aging …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: To examine the association between perceived environmental barriers to and
facilitators for outdoor mobility with life-space among older people. Methods: Community …

Trajectories of outdoor mobility in vulnerable community-dwelling elderly: the role of individual and environmental factors

AR Smith, C Chen, P Clarke… - Journal of aging and …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: Outdoor mobility is critical for healthy aging, yet little is known about the factors
influencing mobility in the frail elderly. We investigated the role of individual and community …

Perceived environmental barriers to outdoor mobility and feelings of loneliness among community-dwelling older people

M Rantakokko, S Iwarsson, S Vahaluoto… - … Series A: Biomedical …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Background. We examined the association between perceived environmental barriers to
outdoor mobility and loneliness among community-dwelling older people. In addition, we …

Unmet physical activity need in old age

M Rantakokko, S Iwarsson… - Journal of the …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
OBJECTIVES: To examine which individual and environmental factors correlate with unmet
physical activity need in old age and predict development of unmet physical activity need …

Association between physical performance and sense of autonomy in outdoor activities and lifespace mobility in communitydwelling older people

E Portegijs, M Rantakokko, TM Mikkola… - Journal of the …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To study the relationship between physical performance and sense of autonomy
in outdoor activities with lifespace mobility—the spatial area a person purposefully moves …

Perceived barriers to walking in the neighborhood environment: a survey of middle-aged and older adults

J Dawson, M Hillsdon, I Boller… - Journal of Aging and …, 2007 - journals.humankinetics.com
The authors investigated whether low levels of walking among older adults in the UK were
associated with demographic and health characteristics, as well as perceived environmental …