Yes / Many older adults face challenges that prevent them from accomplishing common
daily activities such as moving around, home maintenance, and leisure activities. There is
still a need to examine and understand how environmental factors impact daily participation
across gender. This study sought to make a qualitative comparison of gender differences
regarding environmental barriers to participation in daily occupations from the perspectives
of older adults who live alone in Puerto Rico. Twenty-six Hispanic older adults, 70 years or
older participated in this study. We used a descriptive qualitative research design in which
researchers administered an in-depth interview to each participant. The results elucidated
that women were more likely than men to experience restricted participation due to lack of
accessibility of the built environment and transportation systems. The findings could help
with the development of tailored, occupation-based, preventive interventions that address
gender specific environmental barriers and promote greater participation among both women
and men. Further research is required to explore whether these environmental barriers to occupational participation remain consistent across living situations, socioeconomic status
and ethnicity. / Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute of Health (NIH), National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), Clinical Research Education and Career Development (CRECD) [R25MD007607] in collaboration with Puerto Rico Clinical and Translational Research Consortium (PRCTRC) [8U54 MD 007587-03].
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/11022 |
| Date | 03 September 2015 |
| Creators | Orellano-Colon, E.M., Mountain, Gail, Rosario, M., Colon, Z.M., Acevedo, S., Tirado, J. |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Abstract, Published version |
| Rights | © 2015 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
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