Exploring the inner relationship among neighborhood environmental factors affecting quality of life of older adults based on SLR–ISM method

Journal of Housing and the Built Environment

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2020, Pages 215-242

  Zhang, Fan ^a   Li, Dezhi ^b   Ahrentzen, Sherry ^c   Feng, Haibo ^d  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Southeast University   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Inner relationship; Neighborhood environment; Older adults; Quality of life; SLR ISM

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING POPULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LITERATURE REVIEW; NEIGHBORHOOD; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 85066908952     PISSN: 15664910     EISSN: 15737772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10901-019-09674-y     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. Ahrentzen, S., & Tural, E. (2015). The role of building design and interiors in ageing actively at home. Building Research & Information, 43(5), 582–601.
2. Annear, M., Keeling, S., Wilkinson, T. I. M., Cushman, G., Gidlow, B. O. B., & Hopkins, H. (2014). Environmental influences on healthy and active ageing: A systematic review. Ageing & Society, 34(4), 590–622.
3. Cerin, E., Sit, C. H., Barnett, A., Johnston, J. M., Cheung, M. C., & Chan, W. M. (2014). Ageing in an ultra-dense metropolis: Perceived neighbourhood characteristics and utilitarian walking in Hong Kong elders. Public Health Nutrition, 17(1), 225–232.
4. Chaudhury, H., Campo, M., Michael, Y., & Mahmood, A. (2016). Neighbourhood environment and physical activity in older adults. Social Science and Medicine, 149, 104–113.
5. Chaudhury, H., Mahmood, A., Michael, Y. L., Campo, M., & Hay, K. (2012). The influence of neighborhood residential density, physical and social environments on older adults’ physical activity: An exploratory study in two metropolitan areas. Journal of Aging Studies, 26(1), 35–43.
6. Chen, L., & Han, W. J. (2016). Shanghai: Front-runner of community-based eldercare in China. Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 28(4), 292–307.
7. Chen, Y. Y., Wong, G. H., Lum, T. Y., Lou, V. W., Ho, A. H., Luo, H., et al. (2016). Neighborhood support network, perceived proximity to community facilities and depressive symptoms among low socioeconomic status Chinese elders. Aging & Mental Health, 20(4), 423–431.
8. Clarke, P., & Nieuwenhuijsen, E. R. (2009). Environments for healthy ageing: A critical review. Maturitas, 64(1), 14–19.
9. Clarke, P. J., Weuve, J., Barnes, L., Evans, D. A., & de Leon, C. F. M. (2015). Cognitive decline and the neighborhood environment. Annals of Epidemiology, 25(11), 849–854.
10. Curl, A., Ward Thompson, C., & Aspinall, P. (2015). The effectiveness of ‘shared space’ residential street interventions on self-reported activity levels and quality of life for older people. Landscape and Urban Planning, 139, 117–125.
11. Dujardin, C., Lorant, V., & Thomas, I. (2014). Self-assessed health of elderly people in Brussels: Does the built environment matter? Health & Place, 27, 59–67.
12. Engel, L., Chudyk, A. M., Ashe, M. C., McKay, H. A., Whitehurst, D. G. T., & Bryan, S. (2016). Older adults’ quality of life—Exploring the role of the built environment and social cohesion in community-dwelling seniors on low income. Social Science and Medicine, 164, 1–11.
13. Feng, J. X., & Yang, Z. S. (2015). Factors influencing travel behavior of urban elderly people in Nanjing. Progress in Geography, 34(12), 1598–1608 (in Chinese).
14. Fernández-Carro, C., Módenes, J. A., & Spijker, J. (2015). Living conditions as predictor of elderly residential satisfaction. A cross-European view by poverty status. European Journal of Ageing, 12(3), 187–202.
15. Friedman, D., Parikh, N. S., Giunta, N., Fahs, M. C., & Gallo, W. T. (2012). The influence of neighborhood factors on the quality of life of older adults attending New York City senior centers: Results from the Health Indicators Project. Quality Life Research, 21(1), 123–131.
16. Golant, S. M. (2015). Aging in the right place. Baltimore: Health Professions Press.
17. Granbom, M., Iwarsson, S., Kylberg, M., Pettersson, C., & Slaug, B. (2016). A public health perspective to environmental barriers and accessibility problems for senior citizens living in ordinary housing. BMC Public Health, 16(1), 772.
18. Higgins, J., & Green, S. (2011). Cochrane handbook for systematic reviews of interventions Version 5.1.0. Retrieved March, 2011, from www.handbook.cochrane.org.
19. Hogan, M. J., Leyden, K. M., Conway, R., Goldberg, A., Walsh, D., & McKenna-Plumley, P. E. (2016). Happiness and health across the lifespan in five major cities: The impact of place and government performance. Social Science and Medicine, 162, 168–176.
20. Ingram, D. R. (1971). The concept of accessibility: A search for an operational form. Regional Studies, 5(2), 101–107.
21. Iwarsson, S., Horstmann, V., & Slaug, B. (2007). Housing matters in very old age—Yet differently due to ADL dependence level differences. Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 14(1), 3–15.
22. Jackie, K. Y. C. (2013). Projecting sustainable living environment for an ageing society: The case of Hong Kong. Procedia Environmental Sciences, 17, 675–684.
23. Kitchenham, B. A., & Charters. S. (2007). Guidelines for performing systematic literature reviews in software engineering Version 2.3, EBSE Technical Report. Keele University and University of Durham.
24. Koehn, S. D., Mahmood, A. N., & Stott-Eveneshen, S. (2016). Quality of life for diverse older adults in assisted living: The centrality of control. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 59(7–8), 512–536.
25. Krause, N. (1996). Neighborhood deterioration and self-rated health in later life. Psychology and Aging, 11(2), 342–352.
26. Lehning, A. J., Smith, R. J., & Dunkle, R. E. (2015). Do age-friendly characteristics influence the expectation to age in place? A comparison of low-income and higher income Detroit elders. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 34(2), 158–180.
27. Levasseur, M., Desrosiers, J., & Noreau, L. (2004). Relationships between environment and quality of life of older adults with physical disabilities. Physical & Occupational Therapy in Geriatrics, 22(3), 37–53.
28. Li, H., Xu, L., & Chi, I. (2017). Perceived need for home-and community-based services: Experiences of urban Chinese older adults with functional impairments. Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 29(2), 182–196.
29. Liberati, A., Altman, D. G., Tetzlaff, J., Mulrow, C., Gøtzsche, P. C., Ioannidis, J. P. A., et al. (2009). The PRISMA statement for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses of studies that evaluate health care interventions: Explanation and elaboration. PLOS Medicine, 6(7), e1000100.
30. Loo, B. P., Lam, W. W., Mahendran, R., & Katagiri, K. (2017a). How is the neighborhood environment related to the health of seniors living in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Tokyo? Some insights for promoting aging in place. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 107(4), 812–828.
31. Loo, B. P. Y., Mahendran, R., Katagiri, K., & Lam, W. W. Y. (2017b). Walking, neighbourhood environment and quality of life among older people. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 25, 8–13.
32. Loukaitou-Sideris, A., Levy-Storms, L., Chen, L., & Brozen, M. (2016). Parks for an aging population: Needs and preferences of low-income seniors in Los Angeles. Journal of the American Planning Association, 82(3), 236–251.
33. Mooney, S. J., Joshi, S., Cerda, M., Kennedy, G. J., Beard, J. R., & Rundle, A. G. (2017). Contextual correlates of physical activity among older adults: A neighborhood environment-wide association study (NE-WAS). Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, 26(4), 495–504.
34. Parker, C., Barnes, S., McKee, K., Morgan, K., Torrington, J., & Tregenza, P. (2004). Quality of life and building design in residential and nursing homes for older people. Ageing & Society, 24(6), 941–962.
35. Parra, D. C., Gomez, L. F., Sarmiento, O. L., Buchner, D., Brownson, R., Schimd, T., et al. (2010). Perceived and objective neighborhood environment attributes and health related quality of life among the elderly in Bogota. Colombia. Social Science & Medicine, 70(7), 1070–1076.
36. Putrik, P., de Vries, N. K., Mujakovic, S., van Amelsvoort, L., Kant, I., Kunst, A. E., et al. (2015). Living environment matters: Relationships between neighborhood characteristics and health of the residents in a Dutch municipality. Journal of Community Health, 40(1), 47–56.
37. Rantakokko, M., Iwarsson, S., Portegijs, E., Viljanen, A., & Rantanen, T. (2015). Associations between environmental characteristics and life-space mobility in community-dwelling older people. Journal of Aging Health, 27(4), 606–621.
38. Ruengtam, P. (2017). Factor analysis of built environment design and management of residential communities for enhancing the wellbeing of elderly people. Procedia Engineering, 180, 966–974.
39. Sage, A. (1977). Interpretive structural modeling: Methodology for large-scale systems. New York: McGraw-Hill.
40. Sarkar, C., Gallacher, J., & Webster, C. (2013). Built environment configuration and change in body mass index: The Caerphilly Prospective Study (CaPS). Health & Place, 19, 33–44.
41. Soma, Y., Tsunoda, K., Kitano, N., Jindo, T., Tsuji, T., Saghazadeh, M., et al. (2017). Relationship between built environment attributes and physical function in Japanese community-dwelling older adults. Geriatrics & Gerontology International, 17(3), 382–390.
42. Subramanian, S. V., Kubzansky, L., Berkman, L., Fay, M., & Kawachi, I. (2006). Neighborhood effects on the self-rated health of elders: Uncovering the relative importance of structural and service-related neighborhood environments. Journals of Gerontology Series B-Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 61(3), S153–S160.
43. United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. (2015). World population ageing 2015. United Nations Publications.
44. Vogt, S., Mielck, A., Berger, U., Grill, E., Peters, A., Döring, A., et al. (2015). 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, 12(4), 273–283.
45. Warfield, J. N. (1973). An assault on complexity (No. 3). Battelle, Office of Corporate Communications.
46. Warfield, J. N. (1974). Developing Subsystem Matrices in Structural Modeling. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC-4(1), 74–80.
47. Wennberg, H., Hydén, C., & Ståhl, A. (2010). Barrier-free outdoor environments: Older peoples’ perceptions before and after implementation of legislative directives. Transport Policy, 17(6), 464–474.
48. White, D. K., Jette, A. M., Felson, D. T., LaValley, M. P., Lewis, C. E., Torner, J. C., et al. (2010). Are features of the neighborhood environment associated with disability in older adults? Disability and Rehabilitation, 32(8), 639–645.
49. WHOQOL Group. (1995). The World Health Organization quality of life assessment (WHOQOL): Position paper from the World Health Organization. Social Science and Medicine, 41(10), 1403–1409.
50. World Health Organization. (2013). How to use the ICF: A practical manual for using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). Exposure draft for comment. Geneva: WHO.
51. Wu, J., Song, Y., Liang, J., Wang, Q., & Lin, J. (2018). Impact of mixed land use on housing values in high-density areas: Evidence from Beijing. Journal of Urban Planning and Development, 144(1), 05017019.
52. Wu, J.-H., Li, S.-H., & Sung, W.-Y. (2016). The study of perceived environment and its relation to senior citizen’s physical activity behavior intention. Journal of Business Research, 69(6), 2259–2264.
53. Yan, B., Gao, X., & Lyon, M. (2014). Modeling satisfaction amongst the elderly in different Chinese urban neighborhoods. Social Science and Medicine, 118, 127–134.
54. Yang, J., & Yang, Z. (2015). Critical factors affecting the implementation of sustainable housing in Australia. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 30(2), 275–292.
55. Yoo, S., & Kim, D. H. (2017). Perceived urban neighborhood environment for physical activity of older adults in Seoul, Korea: A multimethod qualitative study. Preventive Medicine, 103, S90–S98.
56. Yu, J. Y., Ma, G. X., & Jiang, X. Y. (2017). Impact of the built environment and care services within rural nursing homes in China on quality of life for elderly residents. Engineering Construction and Architectural Management, 24(6), 1170–1183.
57. Zhang, Z., & Zhang, J. (2017). Perceived residential environment of neighborhood and subjective well-being among the elderly in China: A mediating role of sense of community. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 51, 82–94.
58. Zhao, L. Z., Ding, F., & Li, S. K. (2017). Counter measures for the applicable aging renovation of the old residential area under the background of aging population in Beijing. Urban Development Studies, 24(07), 11–14 (in Chinese).
59. Zhao, Y., & Chung, P. K. (2017). Neighborhood environment walkability and health-related quality of life among older adults in Hong Kong. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 73, 182–186.