Exploring facilitators and barriers of older adults’ outdoor mobility: A walk-along study in Singapore

Behaviour in public open spaces: A systematic review of studies with quantitative research methods

“…Other factors, such as the acoustic environment were found could play important roles: the mean speed of those exhibiting walking with background music in the square was slower than when no background music was played [47]. In addition, neighbourhoods facilitators and barriers have been found could affect elder's outdoor mobility which direct correlate to movement and walking [50]. Among which greenery and green spaces, obstruction-free and non-slip footpaths, sheltered walkways, neighbourhood centre, and amenities were considered as facilitators.…”

“…Uneven and obstructed footpaths, lack of shelter or shade, poor legibility, and overhead bridges were found to be barriers. Related to this, pleasure and comfort, psychosocial factors and motivation, materiality, temporality, and adaptive problem-solving behaviour were considered as underlying mechanisms [50].…”

Systematic Review of the Use of the Walk-Along Interview Method to Assess Factors, Facilitators and Barriers Related to Perceived Neighborhood Environment and Walking Activity in Healthy Older Adults

“…Among the 31 articles included in this systematic review, 20 (65%) studies applied the WAI in individuals' own neighborhoods [13,[29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47]; 1 (3%) study applied the WAI in subway stations in high-density areas [48]; 5 (16%) studies applied the WAI in parks and/or green spaces [49][50][51][52][53]; 2 (6%) studies applied the WAI in smart cities [54,55]; 2 (6%) studies applied the WAI in community housing [14,56]; and 1 (3%) study applied the WAI in a residential care facility [57].…”

“…Furthermore, the pedestrian infrastructure includes two subthemes: (1) sidewalk characteristics (n = 22; 71%) [13,14,[29][30][31][34][35][36][38][39][40][41][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51]53,57] and (2) separation between pedestrians and other non-motorized transport modes (n = 5, 16%) [13,41,44,46,56].…”

“…• Quality and maintenance of sidewalks (n = 13, 42%) [13,14,29,30,34,36,39,41,[44][45][46]48,51]; • Sidewalks' slopes and curbs (n = 13, 42%) [13,30,31,34,36,38,40,[44][45][46]48,49,57]; • Temporary obstacles on sidewalks (n = 9, 29%) [30,31,[34][35][36]41,44,46,48]…”