Life-space mobility reflects a person’s mobility with or without the use of a vehicle. Life-space mobility reflects an individual’s opportunities to participate in the society. An individual’s life-space may be restricted to one room, while going outdoors, into the town or beyond increases one’s life-space and thus affects a person’s quality of life<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Sense of autonomy is the perception of control over one’s life. Physical limitations may restrict a person’s possibilities to participate in activities outside of their own home when and how they want to. Other factors such as being a care giver or availability of transportation may also influence sense of autonomy, Postdoctoral Researcher Erja Portegijs explains.<\/p>\n Both physical function and sense of autonomy affect a person’s behavior<\/strong>. This means that we may need to pay attention to psychosocial factors, in addition to physical function, when evaluating a person’s mobility or life-space for example in the clinical setting, Portegijs states.<\/p>\n The results were published online in an international scientific Journal of the American Geriatrics Society<\/em> on March 21, 2014.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This research was funded by the Academy of Finland ASU-LIVE thematic program and the Ministry of Education and Culture<\/strong>. The Gerontology Research Center (GEREC) is a joint effort between the University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4 and the University of Tampere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the Suomen Akatemia (Academy of Finland) media release: Physical function and sense of autonomy are independent determinants of life-space mobility in older people. This was found in a study… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[321,337,339,336],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16653,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16648\/revisions\/16653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"senior_fitness_elder\"](\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/senior_fitness_elder.jpg\")
<\/a>Physical function and sense of autonomy are independent determinants of life-space mobility in older people<\/strong>. This was found in a study conducted at the Gerontology Research Center of the University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4. In this project, 848 older men and women that lived independently in the Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4 region in Central Finland were interviewed at their own home.<\/p>\n