Importance of the home environment for healthy aging: conceptual and methodological background of the European ENABLE-AGE Project.

Summary, in English

Currently in Europe as well as in the United States, an increasing proportion of very old people remain living in their homes despite declines in physical and mental health. Together with the fact that the population of very old people is rapidly increasing (Mathers, Sadana, Salamon, Murray, Lopez, 2001; United Nations Development Programme, 2001), this poses new challenges to societal planning and housing development (Gitlin, 2003).

• Author: Susanne Iwarsson; Hans-Werner Wahl; Carita Nygren; Frank Oswald; Andrew Sixsmith; Judith Sixsmith; Zsuzsa Széman; Signe Tomsone
• Department/s: Sustainable occupations and health in a life course perspective
• Publishing year: 2007
• Language: English
• Pages: 78-84
• Publication/Series: The Gerontologist
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 1
• Links: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17327543&dopt=Abstract
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Topic: Gerontology, specializing in Medical and Health Sciences
• Status: Published
• Project: Home, Health and Disability along the Process of Ageing
• Research group: Sustainable occupations and health in a life course perspective
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1758-5341