GIS/GPS METHODOLOGIES TO MEASURING OUTDOOR MOBILITY, ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXT, AND HEALTHY AGING

Christina Roecke, Minxia Luo, Jeffrey Kaye · 2023

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Christina Roecke, Minxia Luo, and Jeffrey Kaye sum up a symposium on tracking how older adults move through their world. Map and satellite tools can now log outdoor trips and the settings around them. The 2023 session brought four studies from four countries to one stage.

A Hong Kong survey of more than two thousand older adults tied open public space to daily function, now and over four years. A Luxembourg study linked street layouts to less sitting time. Swiss data tied walkable areas to a stronger bond between trips out and memory on the same day. A fourth team showed a phone app that reads walking speed and range. The session frames such tools as a new lens on healthy aging.

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CREATORChristina Roecke, Minxia Luo, Jeffrey Kaye
YEAR2023
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE2 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC10737617

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