BACKGROUND: Spending time in natural environments is beneficial for mental health and cognitive function. Unfortunately, many elderly citizens, who would potentially gain from these effects, have limited or no access to environments. Virtual reality may provide the experience of being present a environment without need transportation. OBJECTIVE: The purpose study was acquire an understanding ho...

Abstract Background Engaging aged residential care (ARC) residents with physical activity (PA) may be a useful strategy to decelerate dependence and disability. It is unclear what volume, intensity patterns of PA ARC participate in. This review aims synthesize the literature quantify pattern that in across differing levels (e.g. low, intermediate, high, mixed), make recommendations for future r...

This research is done with an aim to compare the quality of housing in the two common appartment form on the rendering of main indexes of housing quality through two pre-designed neighbourhoods of Haft HozNeighborhood and the first phase of Ekbatan residential complex in the city of Tehran. Indexes of housing quality are extracted from the internal and external resources and are subjected to qu...

BACKGROUND Recent research highlights the importance of environment as a determinant of physical activity; however, evidence among Japanese is sparse. The aim of this study was to examine the association between perceived neighborhood environment and neighborhood walking for multiple purposes among Japanese. METHODS We conducted a population-based, cross-sectional study of 1461 Japanese adult...