Outdoor mobility in senior housing residents and community-dwelling older people in different population density areas
Sini Siltanen, Essi-Mari Tuomola, Markku Kauppinen, Kirsi E Keskinen, Taina Rantanen, Mikaela von Bonsdorff · 2024
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Sini Siltanen and co-authors compare outdoor mobility in senior housing residents and older people living at home, published in 2024. Getting outdoors supports function and an active life in old age. Little was known about how residents of senior housing move outdoors, or whether the density of the area matters.
The team pooled data from two Finnish studies, one a housing survey and one a population cohort. They scored how far people ranged in daily life and how free they felt outdoors. Community dwellers scored higher on both measures than housing residents. Area density changed the gap between the two groups. In the most and least dense areas, housing residents ranged less far than their peers at home.
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| CREATOR | Sini Siltanen, Essi-Mari Tuomola, Markku Kauppinen, Kirsi E Keskinen, Taina Rantanen, Mikaela von Bonsdorff |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |