Self-assessed health of elderly people in Brussels: does the built environment matter?
(2014) Health & Place — Vol. 27, p. 59-67 (2014)
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- The living environment plays a key role in the "Aging in Place" strategy. We studied the influence of the built environment on the health status of elderly people living in Brussels. Using census and geo-coded data, we analysed whether built environment factors were associated with poor self-assessed health status and functional limitations of elderly residents (aged 65 and over). We concluded that evidence of such an association is weak and vulnerable to the composition of the neighbourhood.
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Dujardin, C., Lorant, V., & Thomas, I. (2014). Self-assessed health of elderly people in Brussels: does the built environment matter? Health & Place, 27, 59-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2014.01.003 (Original work published 2014)