Promoting Active Urban Aging: A Measurement Approach to Neighborhood Walkability for Older Adults

Understanding the role of the built environment on physical activity behavior among older adults is an important public health goal, but evaluating these relationships remains complicated due to the difficulty of measuring specific attributes of the environment. As a result, there is conflicting evi...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rachael L. Weiss, Juliana A. Maantay, Marianne Fahs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Loyola Marymount University 2010-01-01
Series:Cities and the Environment
Subjects:
GIS
Online Access:http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/cate/vol3/iss1/12/