Print Email Facebook Twitter Social participation of community living older persons: Importance, determinants and opportunities Title Social participation of community living older persons: Importance, determinants and opportunities Author Cachadinha, C. Costa Branco De Oliveira Pedro, J.A. Carmo Fialho, J. Faculty OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment Department OTB Research Date 2011-04-18 Abstract Socio-psychological models of successful ageing emphasize life satisfaction, social participation and functioning as the keys to ageing successfully. Some studies suggest that maintaining social participation in late life has a positive influence on quality of life, psychological wellbeing, health, cognitive functioning and life expectancy. However, there is an increasing trend for older people to live alone, some of them in unsafe and insecure environments. The purpose of the paper is to identify factors that hinder or support the social participation of older persons living in the community. The importance of older people’s engagement in physical, social and productive activities was studied. Opportunities for older people socialize in the housing environment were explored. These tasks were carried out through literature review. Subject housingageingsocial participation To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:43c6504b-4cbe-4f01-8918-0b428cebbfbb Publisher Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, Royal College of Art ISBN 978-1-907342-29-5 Source Proceedings Include 2011: 6th International Conference on Inclusive Design "The Role of Inclusive Design in Making Social Innovation Happen", Londen, UK, 18-20 April 2011 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2011 The Author(s)Delft University of Technology Files PDF 270038.pdf 60.41 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:43c6504b-4cbe-4f01-8918-0b428cebbfbb/datastream/OBJ/view