Inequality in health and physical inactivity among senior citizens

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Abstract

Background: Previous research addressing physical activity among senior citizens tend to focus on the actual benefits of being active hence approaching the topic from a physiological and medical perspective. Addressing a gap in interdisciplinary research combining the physiological with the built environment this research will be done in a network of three universities with architects, landscape designers and sports scientists specialized in quantitative measuring collaborating closely over a period of three years. In a Copenhagen neighbourhood of 770 flats for senior citizens this research will be focusing on intervention design in everyday life activities, social community and local urban spaces.

Aims: The research seeks to investigate and explore issues linked to health promotion; e.g. how architecture and design can influence and enhance new body cultures and public health among senior citizens – both mentally, socially and physically.

Theoretical approach: Hypothesizing that in order to address these issues and sustain the solutions local stakeholders and end-users must be engaged in all phases of the process – from identifying and defining the problem, through developing the design to the implementation of the intervention – this research bases itself on the approaches of action research and participatory design.

Methods: Acknowledging that participation in terms of actually co-designing interventions – and especially designing something unknown does not come natural to everyone, this research emphasises a visual approach; e.g. visual go-along interviews, cultural probes, workshops focusing on tangible and visual elements. Led by architects the ‘visual’ will be interpreted as the basis of the inclusive approach of action research.
OriginalsprogDansk
Publikationsdato2016
StatusUdgivet - 2016
BegivenhedInternational conference on Mobility, Mood and Place: Habitats for Happy and Healthy Ageing Habitats for Happy and Healthy Ageing - Edinburgh, Storbritannien
Varighed: 11 okt. 201614 okt. 2017

Konference

KonferenceInternational conference on Mobility, Mood and Place: Habitats for Happy and Healthy Ageing Habitats for Happy and Healthy Ageing
Land/OmrådeStorbritannien
ByEdinburgh
Periode11/10/201614/10/2017

Emneord

  • Interdisciplinary research
  • Intervention design
  • Urban space
  • Body culture
  • Everyday life activities

Kunstnerisk udviklingsvirksomhed (KUV)

  • Nej

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