We tested the feasibility of partial unweighted treadmill training in older, mobility-impaired veterans.
The health market – or more bluntly, the infirmity market – is set to become a battleground, as companies compete to sell older customers mobility aids and the like.
As he grows older, his mobility is becoming progressively limited, but his desire to make a positive impact continues to grow.
This project had an explicit health focus, as older adult mobility was the main outcome of interest.
Stakeholders related to older adult mobility and the built environment span many disciplines and realms of practice.
The result was a comprehensive, framework of stakeholder categories that can be used to understand older adult mobility.
We encountered the challenge of identifying stakeholders in a concept mapping project on the intersection between older adult mobility with built and social environments [ 11].
We then reviewed retrieved articles for relevance to older adult mobility and the built environment in search of applicable stakeholder frameworks.
We present a framework of stakeholder categories and applied it to the intersection of older adult mobility with the built and social environments.
Men who were older, had mobility limitations, more chronic health conditions and were obese tended to spend more time in SB and were less physically active.
The framework is presented as a visual representation and classification of groups and individuals related to the intersection of older adult mobility with the built and social environments.
