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. 2021 Oct;41(4):285-298.
doi: 10.1177/15394492211023192. Epub 2021 Jun 19.

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

Shlomit Rotenberg  1 , Heather Fritz  2 , Tracy Chippendale  3 , Catherine Lysack  4 , Malcolm Cutchin  2
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Out-of-Home Activities and Health in Older Adults: A Scoping Review

Shlomit Rotenberg et al. OTJR (Thorofare N J). 2021 Oct.

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/gender and/or racial differences (25% and 2%, respectively). Future studies may include systematic reviews focused on health outcomes associated with social and leisure OOH activities; as well as gender-based and/or race-based differences in OOH and health relationships.

Keywords: activities of daily living; aging; community participation; health; scoping reviews.

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Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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