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Outdoor Mobility and Promoting Physical Activity Among Older People

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Outdoor physical activity (PA) is crucial for the health and wellbeing of older people. Evidence suggests that various environmental factors might be relevant to facilitating or hindering outdoor PA in this age group. To promote a better appreciation of these factors, we propose interactionist (or ‘ecological’) approaches to understanding the dynamic interactions between mind, body, prosthetics, society, and physical environments. We also review the global demographic and technological trends that are changing the nature and importance of those interactions, leading to new opportunities for indoor simulation of some of the beneficial features of outdoor environments.

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  1. School of Social Political Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

    Neil Thin

  2. Environment Department, University of York, York, UK

    Katherine Brookfield

  3. Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

    Iain Scott

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  1. Department of Psychology, Bournemouth University, Poole, United Kingdom

    Samuel R. Nyman

  2. Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Anna Barker

  3. Department of Physiotherapy, Monash University, Frankston, Victoria, Australia

    Terry Haines

  4. School of Health Sciences, City, University of London, London, United Kingdom

    Khim Horton

  5. Centre for Innovative Ageing, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom

    Charles Musselwhite

  6. Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Geeske Peeters

  7. College of Health and Life Sciences, Brunel University, Uxbridge, United Kingdom

    Christina R. Victor

  8. Institute of Psychogerontology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany

    Julia Katharina Wolff

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Thin, N., Brookfield, K., Scott, I. (2018). Outdoor Mobility and Promoting Physical Activity Among Older People. In: Nyman, S., et al. The Palgrave Handbook of Ageing and Physical Activity Promotion. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71291-8_21

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