PURPOSE To explore the perceptions of young people with a spinal cord injury or disease (SCI/D) about their leisure participation at school, home and in the community. METHODS The study used narrative enquiry to elicit the unique leisure stories of three participants aged 8-11 years with a SCI/D during two face-to-face, semi-structured interviews. Pictorial data about participants' interperso...

Although activity participation is promoted as cognitively protective, critical questions of causality remain. In a cohort followed every 5 years from age 75 to 85 years, potential reciprocal associations between level and change in leisure activity participation and level and change in cognitive abilities were examined. Participants in the Glostrup 1914 Cohort, a longitudinal study of aging, c...

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This paper explores the future opportunities for combine ambient e-service with leisure industry. Contrast to traditional leisure service delivery method, our proposed service innovation focus on the bottom-up collaborative solutions which enable leisure activity participants to cooperate with nearby users and encourage information sharing and experience co-creation. We introduce a collaborativ...

s of papers relating to these issues are invited for consideration for the conferenceand should be sent to Andrew Sayer at the address below by the extended deadline of1 March 2005 Conference organiser: Andrew Sayer, Professor of Social Theory and Political Economy,Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, LA1 4YD, U.K. [email protected] Conference secretary: Pennie Drink...

BACKGROUND While considerable attention has been given to quantifying leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) among subpopulations, less attention has focused on the perception of the experience as leisure. The current study describes the prevalence of leisure-like experiences during LTPA among college students. We describe the social contexts and activity settings that contribute to participant ...