Giving Voice to the Environment as the Silent Partner in Aging : Examining the Moderating Roles of Gender and Family Structure in Older Adult Wellbeing

Gerontological scholarship has long seen the environment to be a silent partner in aging. Environmental Gerontology, an established approach in Social Gerontology, has shown how the everyday lives of older adults are deeply entangled in socio-spatial environments. Adopting an Environmental Gerontology approach, we explore social and cultural dimensions of the association between out-of-home mobility and wellbeing among older adults in a north western city of India. This was established by combining high resolution time-space data collected using GPS receivers, questionnaire data and time diaries. Following a multi-staged analytical strategy, we first examine the correlation between out-of-home mobility and wellbeing using bivariate correlation. Second, we introduce gender and family structure into regression models as moderating variables to improve the models' explanatory power. Finally, we use our results to reinterpret the Ecological Press Model of Aging to include familial structure as a factor that moderates environmental stress. Findings emphasize the central role that social constructs play in the long-established relationship between the environment and the wellbeing of older adults.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:17

Enthalten in:

International journal of environmental research and public health - 17(2020), 12 vom: 18. Juni

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Isaacson, Michal [VerfasserIn]
Tripathi, Ashwin [VerfasserIn]
Samanta, Tannistha [VerfasserIn]
D'Ambrosio, Lisa [VerfasserIn]
Coughlin, Joseph [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Family structure
Gender
India
Journal Article
Older adults
Spatial mobility
Wellbeing

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Date Completed 06.10.2020

Date Revised 06.10.2020

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/ijerph17124373

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM311493661