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

European Journal of Ageing

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 273-283

  Vogt, Susanne ^a   Mielck, Andreas ^a   Berger, Ursula ^b   Grill, Eva ^b   Peters, Annette ^a   Döring, Angela ^a   Holle, Rolf ^a   Strobl, Ralf ^b   Zimmermann, Anja Kerstin ^a   Linkohr, Birgit ^a   Wolf, Kathrin ^a   Kneißl, Klaus ^c   Maier, Werner ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c Department of Social Planning   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distance; Geographic information system; Green space; Healthy aging; Residential environment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929429593     PISSN: 16139372     EISSN: 16139380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10433-015-0345-0     Document Type: Article

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