What is it about?
Navigating unfamiliar towns and cities may be challenging for older people. We have explored their emotional and physiological responses in relation to changes in the physical characteristics of a walking route around Colchester in north-east Essex, England
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Why is it important?
Our findings shows older people's response to different physical features and offers the potential to adjust the environment and mitigate barriers.
Perspectives
Writing this article was the culmination of research over several years with co-researchers and older people from Swansea, South Wales.
Professor Nigel S Walford
Kingston University
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This page is a summary of: Assessing the needs of older people in urban settings: integration of emotive, physiological and built environment data, Geo Geography and Environment, January 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/geo2.37.
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