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The Role of Neighbourhood Social and Built Environments – Including Third Places – in Older Adults’ Social Interactions
Neighbourhood environments shape older adults’ social interactions. This research conceptualises a comprehensive set of perceived and objective measures of neighbourhood social and built environments, including third places, with older adults’ social interactions. In Melbourne, based on the person-environment fit framework, mediation analyses showed that the perceived social environment measures of community spirit, participation in community groups and belonging to suburb, were the strongest predictors of social interactions, followed by a few types of perceived third places. Our findings suggest that policymakers should focus on how the objective environment characteristics are interpreted as levers when planning for changes.
The Role of Neighbourhood Social and Built Environments – Including Third Places – in Older Adults’ Social Interactions
Neighbourhood environments shape older adults’ social interactions. This research conceptualises a comprehensive set of perceived and objective measures of neighbourhood social and built environments, including third places, with older adults’ social interactions. In Melbourne, based on the person-environment fit framework, mediation analyses showed that the perceived social environment measures of community spirit, participation in community groups and belonging to suburb, were the strongest predictors of social interactions, followed by a few types of perceived third places. Our findings suggest that policymakers should focus on how the objective environment characteristics are interpreted as levers when planning for changes.
The Role of Neighbourhood Social and Built Environments – Including Third Places – in Older Adults’ Social Interactions
Veeroja, Piret (author) / Foliente, Greg (author) / McCrea, Rod (author) / Badland, Hannah (author) / Pettit, Chris (author)
Urban Policy and Research ; 42 ; 184-203
2024-04-02
20 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Older Social and Private Renters, the Neighbourhood, and Social Connections and Activity
| Taylor & Francis Verlag | 2012