ArticleBMC public health2021
Associations of changes in neighbourhood walkability with changes in walking activity in older adults: a fixed effects analysis.
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- Social disparities in exposures to neighbourhood obesogenic built environments in Czechia.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- The Role of Environmental Factors in Technology-Assisted Physical Activity Intervention Studies Among Older Adults: Scoping Review.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2025Article
- A Framework for Measuring Neighborhood Walkability for Older Adults-A Delphi Consensus Study.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2024Article
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- A positive neighborhood walkability is associated with a higher magnitude of leisure walking in adults upon COVID-19 restrictions: a longitudinal cohort study.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2023Article
- Development of a neighborhood obesogenic built environment characteristics index for the Netherlands.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2023Article
- Food Accessibility in the Suburbs of the Metropolitan City of Antwerp (Belgium): A Factor of Concern in Local Public Health and Active and Healthy Aging.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Development of an objectively measured walkability index for the Netherlands.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2022Article
- Associations between neighborhood walkability and walking following residential relocation: Findings from Alberta's Tomorrow Project.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status, Green Space, and Walkability and Risk for Falls Among Postmenopausal Women: The Women's Health Initiative.Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's HealthArticle
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Abstract
backgroundSupporting older adults to engage in physically active lifestyles requires supporting environments. Walkable environments may increase walking activity in older adults, but evidence for this subgroup is scarce, and longitudinal studies are lacking. This study therefore examined whether changes in neighbourhood walkability were associated with changes in walking activity in older adults, and whether this association differed by individual-level characteristics and by contextual conditions beyond the built environment.
methodsData from 668 participants (57.8-93.4 years at baseline) across three waves (2005/06, 2008/09 and 2011/12) of the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (LASA) were used. These individuals did not relocate during follow-up. Self-reported outdoor walking activity in minutes per week was assessed using the LASA Physical Activity Questionnaire. Composite exposure measures of neighbourhood walkability (range: 0 (low)-100 (high)) within 500-m Euclidean buffer zones around each participant's residential address were constructed by combining objectively measured high-resolution Geographic Information System data on population density, retail and service destination density, land use mix, street connectivity, green space density, and sidewalk density. Fixed effects linear regression analyses were applied, adjusted for relevant time-varying confounders.
resultsChanges in neighbourhood walkability were not statistically significantly associated with changes in walking activity in older adults (β
conclusionsThis study did not show evidence for an association between changes in neighbourhood walkability and changes in walking activity in older adults. If neighbourhood walkability and walking activity are causally linked, then changes in neighbourhood walkability between 2005/06 and 2011/12 might have been not substantial enough to produce meaningful changes in walking activity in older adults.
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