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This paper addresses older people's outdoor activities by taking an everyday life perspective to research. Everyday life refers to daily pursuits undertaken by different individuals. Everyday life is also a model for conceptualising person-environment relationships and for proposing practice-related actions to improve quality of life. This article argues for the need to give ‘everyday life’ a more prominent role in environmental psychology in the examination of what social and environmental factors contribute to health and wellbeing of older adults. As such, quality of life needs to be placed in the realm of one's existence and everyday environment. I define everyday life and place it in the context of ageing research. Next, I present some research tools for everyday life—derived from the Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors (I'DGO) research project—which are useful to measure everyday patterns of outdoor activities. The article concludes by arguing for the use of an everyday life model to integrate research and practice in ageing research

Everyday life in the context of outdoor spaces for older people / Alves, Susana. - In: PSYECOLOGY. - ISSN 2171-1976. - 2:3(2011), pp. 233-242. [10.1174/217119711797877852]

Everyday life in the context of outdoor spaces for older people

Alves Susana
2011

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This paper addresses older people's outdoor activities by taking an everyday life perspective to research. Everyday life refers to daily pursuits undertaken by different individuals. Everyday life is also a model for conceptualising person-environment relationships and for proposing practice-related actions to improve quality of life. This article argues for the need to give ‘everyday life’ a more prominent role in environmental psychology in the examination of what social and environmental factors contribute to health and wellbeing of older adults. As such, quality of life needs to be placed in the realm of one's existence and everyday environment. I define everyday life and place it in the context of ageing research. Next, I present some research tools for everyday life—derived from the Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors (I'DGO) research project—which are useful to measure everyday patterns of outdoor activities. The article concludes by arguing for the use of an everyday life model to integrate research and practice in ageing research
2011
El presente trabajo estudia las actividades al aire libre de las personas mayores, desde una perspectiva de investigación de la vida cotidiana. La vida cotidiana se refiere a las actividades cotidianas de los individuos. La vida cotidiana es también un modelo de conceptualización de las relacionespersona-ambientey depropuestas de accionesprácticas destinadas a mejorar la calidad devida. Elpresente artículo defiende la necesidad de otorgar a la ‘vida cotidiana’ un papel más destacado en la psicología ambiental, en el estudio de los factores sociales y ambientales que contribuyen a la salud y el bienestar de las personas mayores. Por lo tanto, la calidad de vida debe situarse en el dominio de la existencia yel entorno cotidiano de cada persona. Defino lo cotidianoylo sitúo en el contexto de la investigación sobre el envejecimiento. A continuación presento algunos instrumentos de investigación, derivados del proyecto Diseño Inclusivo para Salir al Aire Libre (Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors, I’DGO), y que son útiles para medir los patrones cotidianos de las actividades al aire libre. El trabajo termina con una argumentación a favor del uso de un modelo de la vida cotidiana que integre la investigación yla práctica en el estudio del envejecimiento
ageing environments; everyday life; health; older people; outdoor spaces
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Everyday life in the context of outdoor spaces for older people / Alves, Susana. - In: PSYECOLOGY. - ISSN 2171-1976. - 2:3(2011), pp. 233-242. [10.1174/217119711797877852]
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