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- Title
Neighborhood and healthy aging in a German city: distances to green space and senior service centers and their associations with physical constitution, disability, and health-related quality of life.
- Authors
Vogt, Susanne; Mielck, Andreas; Berger, Ursula; Grill, Eva; Peters, Annette; Döring, Angela; Holle, Rolf; Strobl, Ralf; Zimmermann, Anja-Kerstin; Linkohr, Birgit; Wolf, Kathrin; Kneißl, Klaus; Maier, Werner
- Abstract
The article discusses the study that determined associations between proximity of residences to green space and senior service centers, and healthy aging aspects of self-rated physical constitution, disability, and health-related quality of life of Augsburg, Germany residents aged at least 65. Topics discussed include no clear association found between distances of residential environment to closest green space or senior service center, as well as in aspects of health aging.
- Subjects
GERMANY; SENIOR centers; AGING; GEOGRAPHIC information systems; RESIDENTIAL patterns
- Publication
European Journal of Ageing, 2015, Vol 12, Issue 4, p273
- ISSN
1613-9372
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10433-015-0345-0