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The built environment, health, and longevity
— multi-level salutogenic and pathogenic pathways | | Author(s) | Andrew V Wister |
| Journal title | Journal of Housing for the Elderly, vol 19, no 2, 2005 |
| Pages | pp 49-70 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Housing [elderly] ; Physical environment ; Health [elderly] ; Quality of life ; Longevity ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | This paper reviews and integrates interdisciplinary literature that investigates the influence of the built environment on the subjective and objective health of older people that may improve their quality of life and quantity of remaining years of life. The development, expansion and synthesis of person-environment and ecological models provides the theoretical foundation. Central to this discussion is the identification and elaboration of salutogenic and pathogenic pathways (as described by A Antonovsky in "Health, stress and coping", 1979), whereby the built environment may influence health, functioning and longevity. Research and knowledge drawn from literature on relocation, housing characteristics and well-being, the meaning of home, delay of institutionalisation, technological devices, falls and other injuries, and healthy communities is used to demonstrate environmental pathways to health and longevity. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070109002 A |
| Classmark | KE: R: CC: F:59: BGA: 64A |
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