ArticleThe Gerontologist2020
The Effects of Neighborhood Built Environment on Walking for Leisure and for Purpose Among Older People.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Systematic review of nonlinear associations between the built environment and walking in older adults.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- Neighborhood Walkability Is Associated With Global Positioning System-Derived Community Mobility of Older Adults.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2024Trial
- Social factors, health policy, and environment: implications for cardiovascular disease across the globe.European heart journal · 2025Review
- A Grounded Theory of Walking for Health Promotion in Older Urban Adults.The Gerontologist · 2024Article
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- Prompt-guided and multimodal landscape scenicness assessments with vision-language models.PloS one · 2024Article
- The role of the perceived environment for recreational walking among adults in socioeconomically disadvantaged situations: A study using walk-along interviews.SSM - population health · 2023Article
- Virtual reality assessment of walking in a modifiable urban environment: a feasibility and acceptability study.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The association between core job components, physical activity, and mental health in African academics in a post-COVID-19 context.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2023Article
- The relationship between job components, neighbourhood walkability and African academics' physical activity: a post-COVID-19 context.Health promotion international · 2022Article
- Associations Between Perceived Neighborhood Walkability and Device-Based Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior Patterns in Older Adults.Journal of aging and physical activity · 2022Article
- Age-friendly neighbourhoods and physical activity of older Surinamese individuals in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.PloS one · 2022Article
- Associations of Neighborhood Walkability and Walking Behaviors by Cognitive Trajectory in Older Adults.The Gerontologist · 2021Article
- Predictors of change in BMI over 10 years among midlife and older adults: Associations with gender, CVD risk status, depressive symptoms, and social support.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2021Article
- Community Environments That Promote Intergenerational Interactions vs. Walking Among Older Adults.Frontiers in public health · 2020Article
- Go-Along Virtual INTERview (GVIv): A Novel Nurse-Led Qualitative Method for Exploring Neighborhood Lived Experience and Health.Global qualitative nursing researchArticle
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectivesCharacteristics of a neighborhood's built environment affect the walking behavior of older people, yet studies typically rely on small nonrepresentative samples that use either subjective reports or aggregate indicators from administrative sources to represent neighborhood characteristics. Our analyses examine the usefulness of a novel method for observing neighborhoods-virtual observations-and assess the extent to which virtual-based observations predict walking among older adults. RESEARCH DESIGN AND
methodsUsing Google Street View, we observed the neighborhoods of 2,224 older people and examined how characteristics of the neighborhood built environments are associated with the amount of time older people spend walking for leisure and purpose.
resultsMultilevel model analyses revealed that sidewalk characteristics had significant associations with both walking for purpose and leisure. Land use, including the presence of multifamily dwellings, commercial businesses, and parking lots were positively associated with walking for purpose and single-family detached homes were negatively associated with walking for purpose, but none of these characteristics were associated with leisure walking. Gardens/flowers were associated with walking for leisure but not purpose. Garbage/litter was not associated with either type of walking behavior. DISCUSSION AND IMPLICATIONS: Virtual observations are a useful method that provides meaningful information about neighborhoods. Findings demonstrate how neighborhood characteristics assessed virtually differentially impact walking for leisure and purpose among older adults and are interpreted within a social-ecological model.
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