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Walk the talk
— characterizing mobility in older adults living on low income | | Author(s) | Anna M Chudyk, Joanie Sims-Gould, Maureen C Ashe |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 36, no 2, June 2017 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, June 2017 |
| Pages | pp 141-158 |
| Source | http://cambridge.org/cjg |
| Keywords | Mobility ; Economic status [elderly] ; Poor elderly ; Physical capacity ; Walking ; Pedestrian transport ; Exercise ; Physical environment. |
| Annotation | In this study the authors provided an in-depth description of the mobility (capacity and enacted function, i.e., physical activity and travel behaviour) of community-dwelling older adults of low socioeconomic status. 161 participants with an average age of 74 years completed interviewer-administered questionnaires and objective measures of mobility. Study findings did not generally indicate that older adults of low socioeconomic status had a reduced capacity to be mobile. Participants presented with positive profiles across physical, psychosocial and social environment domains that influenced the capacity to be mobile. They also made a high proportion of trips by foot, although these did not together serve to meet physical activity guidelines for most. Future research should focus on innovative strategies to recruit this difficult-to-access population, to consider the influence of socioeconomic status across the lifespan, and the role of behaviour-driven agency when investigating the association between the person, environment and older adult mobility. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170728250 A |
| Classmark | C4: F:W: F:W6: BI: HSA: OE: CEA: R |
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