Well-being and Mobility: A Theoretical Framework and Literature Review Focusing on Older People |
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Authors: | Susanne Nordbakke Tim Schwanen |
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Institution: | 1. Institute of Transport Economics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.;2. School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. |
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Abstract: | There is an increasing attention for how mobility is associated with well-being amongst people in general and older adults in particular. Comparisons across research projects and articles are, however, hampered by the different understandings and conceptualisations of well-being that are employed. We, firstly, develop a heuristic framework for understanding the concept of well-being, and secondly, use this to explore possible linkages between well-being and mobility and to critically examine the various conceptualisations of well-being in research on mobility in later life. It is argued that future work on well-being and mobility should consider both the objective and the subjective and the hedonic and eudaimonic dimensions of well-being, and should pay detailed attention to the multiple ways in which well-being and its linkages to mobility are context-dependent and shaped by the particularities of time and place. |
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Keywords: | Well-being Quality of life Mobility Motility Ageing Literature review |
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