‘We are developing our bubble’: role of the built environment in supporting physical and social activities in independent-living older adults during COVID-19

Hui, Rutai; Strickfaden, Megan; Spence, John C.; Jackson, Marcus; Avedzi, Hayford M.; Lee, Karen K.

doi:10.1080/23748834.2023.2195076

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“…However, systematic review-level evidence for strategies to improve community and building environments for social connections seems to be less robust, and more research is needed in this field 12,15 . In addition, emerging primary studies are showing that simple interventions, such as balcony design, have the potential to increase social connections, especially among aging populations 16 .…”

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Need for continued improvements to our communities and buildings for health

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2023

Interdisciplinary Nursing Research

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Globally, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are leading causes of mortality, morbidity, and healthcare costs. Growing evidence demonstrates that key protective factors for NCDS (e.g., physical activity, healthy eating, and social connections) can be influenced through better design of and amenities in our community and building environments. Guidelines for multi-sector professionals that provide strategies for bettering these environments have proven successful in improving NCD outcomes in jurisdictions that have implemented them into policies and practices across settings. In 2023, the Healthy Community Guidelines informed by the latest evidence and multi-sector practitioner inputs are being released. There is great need to implement its strategies broadly across our cities and towns so we may create environments for better NCD prevention and management. In doing so, we have the opportunity to achieve our goals of improved NCD outcomes, life expectancies and more sustainable healthcare systems in the next decade.

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Coping Strategies of the Inhabitants of Collaborative and Regular Housing Arrangements during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Emerging Conceptual Re-elaboration of the Underlying Mechanisms through an Integrative Literature Review

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2023

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This review revisits the literature on collaborative and regular housing focusing on the intersection of housing affordability, social integration and health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Collaborative housing is an umbrella term that generates space not only for socio-spatial alternatives but also for alternative economic and legal frameworks in the context of housing. Hence, collaborative housing broadens the scope of regular housing by enabling the appropriation of common spaces by the inhabitants, encouraging social interaction, promoting sharing practices, self-organisation and collective solidarity in everyday life. Little is known about the challenges, experiences and mechanisms underlying the coping ways by which inhabitants dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic. Through an integrative literature review methodology, this study explores (1) How was unwanted isolation experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic?, (2) How did residents cope with the pandemic?, and (3) Which spatial solutions contributed to their well-being? This review includes 50 peer-reviewed articles, ten reports and 12 grey literature publications in three linguistic areas of English, German, and French in the timeframe of 2020–2022. Enriching the COVID-19 research in the context of housing, the review contributes to the synthesis of a state-of-the-art knowledge space by representing an emerged conceptual re-elaboration of coping responses in the context of regular and collaborative housing settings. Thus, the essence of this integrative review approach catalysed the unearthing of the underlying mechanisms of coping strategies and their causal explanations. Insights from various perspectives are extracted and organised to make them accessible to all while the elaboration for future research is identified.

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‘We are developing our bubble’: role of the built environment in supporting physical and social activities in independent-living older adults during COVID-19

Cited by 2 publications

References 39 publications

Need for continued improvements to our communities and buildings for health

Need for continued improvements to our communities and buildings for health

Coping Strategies of the Inhabitants of Collaborative and Regular Housing Arrangements during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Emerging Conceptual Re-elaboration of the Underlying Mechanisms through an Integrative Literature Review

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