This study provides further evidence that macroscale design features - connected neighbourhoods with commercial and recreational facilities – may better enable older adults to achieve health-enhancing physical activity levels through neighbourhood walking.
These personal characteristics in themselves may eventually enable older adults to continue to stay in their communities (like those in the CCC group), to community after being institutionalized (like those in the CIC group), or to stay in community longer (like those in the CCI group).
The findings could help health professionals, families and caregivers to achieve a deeper understanding of what old age entails, and may also serve as a platform for interventions that seek to enable older people to experience aging as a meaningful and positive process.
Behavioural Activation (BA) encourages increased activity and social contact which may improve physical health symptoms as well as mood; it can enable older people to 'move on' from depression, providing them with the tools to manage their symptoms.
86 The ability of the healthcare provider to respond to older peoples' emotional concerns may be important to ensure both health and well-being, but also to enable older people to cope with daily tasks and live at home as long as possible.
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Identification of the relative contribution of vascular risk factors and depression as potentially modifiable determinants of SMC in older people may enable early intervention strategies to prevent subsequent cognitive decline [ 25] and dementia, guiding both primary and secondary prevention approaches [ 25].
This certainly calls for a prompt population-based policy response against obesity, especially with an eye towards its older population, which may enable them to lead a relatively morbidity-free and disability-free productive later life.
