Out-of-Home Activities and Health in Older Adults: A Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT: Participating in out-of-home (OOH) activities has been shown to benefit health in older adults. This scoping review aimed to describe the nature of the literature on OOH activities and health in community dwelling older adults, and the operationalization of OOH activity and health-related variables. We followed the Joanna Briggs Institute guidelines. Four databases were searched; studies were selected through title/abstract and full-text screening; and data on study characteristics, sample, and OOH activity and health-related variables were extracted, and summarized descriptively. Sixty articles were identified. There was a considerable focus on leisure and social activities (78% and 75%, respectively) but no predominant health-related outcome was identified. Few studies analyzed sex/gende

SUBMITTER: Rotenberg S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8479153 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature