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Abstract：
Gerontological scholarship has long seen the environment to be a silent partner in aging. Environmental Gerontology, an established approach in Social Gerontology, has shown how the everyday lives of older adults are deeply entangled in socio-spatial environments. Adopting an Environmental Gerontology approach, we explore social and cultural dimensions of the association between out-of-home mobility and wellbeing among older adults in a north western city of India. This was established by combining high resolution time-space data collected using GPS receivers, questionnaire data and time diaries. Following a multi-staged analytical strategy, we first examine the correlation between out-of-home mobility and wellbeing using bivariate correlation. Second, we introduce gender and family structure into regression models as moderating variables to improve the models\' explanatory power. Finally, we use our results to reinterpret the Ecological Press Model of Aging to include familial structure as a factor that moderates environmental stress. Findings emphasize the central role that social constructs play in the long-established relationship between the environment and the wellbeing of older adults.
摘要：
老年学奖学金长期以来一直认为环境是衰老的沉默伙伴。环境老年学，社会老年学的既定方法，已经展示了老年人的日常生活如何深深地纠缠在社会空间环境中。采用环境老年学方法，我们探讨了印度西北部城市老年人外出出行与福祉之间关联的社会和文化层面。这是通过结合使用GPS接收器收集的高分辨率时空数据而建立的，问卷调查数据和时间日记。遵循多阶段的分析策略，我们首先使用双变量相关性研究了外出出行和幸福感之间的相关性。第二,我们将性别和家庭结构作为调节变量引入回归模型，以提高模型的解释力。最后,我们使用我们的结果来重新解释衰老的生态新闻模型，将家庭结构作为缓解环境压力的因素。研究结果强调了社会结构在环境与老年人福祉之间的长期关系中发挥的核心作用。
