Mobility and Aging: New Directions for Public Health Action

Optimal mobility is central to healthy aging. This article examines the public health burdens of mobility disability, with a particular focus on leading public health interventions to enhance walking and driving, and the challenges and opportunities for public health action. An integrated mobility agenda is proposed, which draws on the lived experience of older adults. It was found that new strategies for research, practice, and policy are needed to move beyond categorical promotion programs in walking and driving to establish a comprehensive program to enhance safe mobility.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2011.300631
• Record URL:
  • http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22698013
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/00900036
• Authors:
  • Satariano, William A
  • Guralnik, Jack M
  • Jackson, Richard J
  • Marottoli, Richard A
  • Phelan, Elizabeth A
  • Prohaska, Thomas R
• Publication Date: 2012-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 1508-1515
• Serial:
  • American Journal of Public Health
  • Volume: 102
  • Issue Number: 8
  • Publisher: American Public Health Association
  • ISSN: 0090-0036
  • EISSN: 1541-0048
  • Serial URL: http://ajph.aphapublications.org/loi/ajph

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aged; Driving; Mobility; Policy; Public health; Strategic planning; Walking
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01448620
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 5 2012 11:17AM