Nonlinear and threshold effects of built environment on older adults’ walking duration: do age and retirement status matter?

• DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1418733
• Publication Date: 2024-06-28T04:54:33Z
• Authors: Jiani Wu; Chaoyang Li; Li Zhu; Xiaofei Liu; Bozhezi Peng; Tao Wang; Shengqiang Yuan; Yi Zhang
• Keywords: Male; China; retirement status; Time Factors; Walking; age differences; Residence Characteristics; 0502 economics and business; Humans; Built Environment; older adults; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Retirement; 05 social sciences; Age Factors; Middle Aged; built environment; machine learning; walking duration; Female; Environment Design; Public Health; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270

Walking plays a crucial role in promoting physical activity among older adults. Understanding how the built environment influences adults' walking behavior is vital for and healthy aging. Among voluminous literature investigating environmental correlates of behaviors adults, few have focused on duration across different age groups life stages, let alone examined potential nonlinearities thresholds environment.