List of works - Merja Rantakokko

Accumulation of disparity in physical activity in old age

scientific article published on April 23, 2012

Accumulation of sensory difficulties predicts fear of falling in older women

scientific article published on 4 July 2013

Active aging - resilience and external support as modifiers of the disablement outcome: AGNES cohort study protocol.

scientific article published on 2 May 2018

Association between physical performance and sense of autonomy in outdoor activities and life-space mobility in community-dwelling older people

scientific article published on 21 March 2014

Association of self-reported hearing difficulty to objective and perceived participation outside the home in older community-dwelling adults

scientific article published on 19 June 2014

Associations Between Accelerometer-Based Free-Living Walking and Self-Reported Walking Capability Among Community-Dwelling Older People

scientific article

Associations Between Environmental Characteristics and Life-Space Mobility in Community-Dwelling Older People

article

Associations Between Reasons to Go Outdoors and Objectively-Measured Walking Activity in Various Life-Space Areas Among Older People

scientific article published on 7 May 2015

Associations between Perceived Outdoor Environment and Walking Modifications in Community-Dwelling Older People: A Two-Year Follow-Up Study

scientific article published on 28 July 2020

Associations of Environmental Features With Outdoor Physical Activity on Weekdays and Weekend Days: A Cross-Sectional Study Among Older People

scientific article published on 30 October 2020

Barriers to outdoor physical activity and unmet physical activity need in older adults

Changes in life-space mobility and quality of life among community-dwelling older people: a 2-year follow-up study.

scientific article

Comment on: A critical analysis of the internal logic in the Life-Space Assessment (LSA) composite score and suggested solutions

scientific article published on 6 November 2015

Daily Physical Activity and Sedentary Time Assessed by Acceleration Based on Mean Amplitude Deviation among Older People

scientific article published on 21 September 2020

Developing an Assessment Method of Active Aging: University of Jyvaskyla Active Aging Scale.

scientific article published in January 2018

Do Associations Between Perceived Environmental and Individual Characteristics and Walking Limitations Depend on Lower Extremity Performance Level?

scientific article published on 6 April 2016

Effects of a rehabilitation program on perceived environmental barriers in older patients recovering from hip fracture: a randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 6 August 2013

Environmental Features Associated With Older Adults' Physical Activity in Different Types of Urban Neighborhoods

scientific article published on 19 December 2019

Environmental barriers, person-environment fit and mortality among community-dwelling very old people

scientific article

Environmental facilitators for outdoor walking and development of walking difficulty in community-dwelling older adults

scientific article published on 05 June 2013

Environmental mobility barriers and walking for errands among older people who live alone vs. with others

scientific article

Executive function and life-space mobility in old age.

scientific article published on 21 April 2017

Fear of falling and coexisting sensory difficulties as predictors of mobility decline in older women.

scientific article published on 30 April 2012

Fear of moving outdoors and development of outdoor walking difficulty in older people

scientific article published in April 2009

Gait Features in Different Environments Contributing to Participation in Outdoor Activities in Old Age (GaitAge): Protocol for an Observational Cross-Sectional Study

scientific article published on 29 April 2024

Gait Features in Different Environments Contributing to Participation in Outdoor Activities in Old Age (GaitAge): Protocol for an Observational Cross-Sectional Study (Preprint)

scientific article published on 22 September 2023

Genetic effects on life-space mobility in older women

scientific article published in July 2013

Hearing and Quality of Life Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults.

scientific article published on 6 May 2016

Hilliness and the Development of Walking Difficulties Among Community-Dwelling Older People

scientific article published on 26 December 2018

Identification of Older People at Risk of ADL Disability Using the Life-Space Assessment: A Longitudinal Cohort Study

scientific article published on 21 January 2016

Individual and environmental factors underlying life space of older people - study protocol and design of a cohort study on life-space mobility in old age (LISPE).

scientific article

Individualized counselling for active aging: protocol of a single-blinded, randomized controlled trial among older people (the AGNES intervention study)

scientific article published on 07 January 2019

Is frailty associated with life-space mobility and perceived autonomy in participation outdoors? A longitudinal study

scientific article

Laboratory-assessed gait cycle entropy for classifying walking limitations among community-dwelling older adults

scientific article published in April 2024

Life resources and personal goals in old age.

scientific article

Life-Space Mobility in Parkinson's Disease: Associations with Motor and Non-Motor Symptoms

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Life-space mobility and dimensions of depressive symptoms among community-dwelling older adults

scientific article

Life-space mobility and quality of life in community-dwelling older people

scientific article

Life-space mobility assessment in older people in Finland; measurement properties in winter and spring

scientific article

Minimal toe clearance in older adults when walking on level, uphill and downhill conditions

scientific article published on 31 July 2024

Mobility Decline in Old Age ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2013

Mobility Modification Alleviates Environmental Influence on Incident Mobility Difficulty among Community-Dwelling Older People: A Two-Year Follow-Up Study

scientific article

Moving through Life-Space Areas and Objectively Measured Physical Activity of Older People

scientific article published on 7 August 2015

Natural History of Social Participation in the Very Old: Findings from the Newcastle 85+ Study

scientific article published on 04 August 2020

Nature as a facilitator for physical activity: Defining relationships between the objective and perceived environment and physical activity among community-dwelling older people

scientific article published on 3 January 2018

Nature diversity and well-being in old age.

scientific article

Neighborhood Mobility and Unmet Physical Activity Need in Old Age: A 2-Year Follow-Up

scientific article published on 17 November 2019

Objectively Measured Physical Activity and Changes in Life-Space Mobility Among Older People

scientific article

Older Adults' Physical Activity and the Relevance of Distances to Neighborhood Destinations and Barriers to Outdoor Mobility

scientific article published on 07 August 2020

Older Women’s Personal Goals and Exercise Activity: An 8-Year Follow-Up

Older women's personal goals and exercise activity: an 8-year follow-up

scientific article published on 12 August 2013

Outdoor Mobility and Use of Adaptive or Maladaptive Walking Modifications Among Older People

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Patterns of functional decline in very old age: an application of latent transition analysis.

scientific article

Perceived Benefit From Hearing Aid Use and Life-Space Mobility Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults

scientific article published on 02 December 2016

Perceived Opportunities for Physical Activity and Willingness to Be More Active in Older Adults with Different Physical Activity Levels

scientific article

Perceived and objective entrance-related environmental barriers and daily out-of-home mobility in community-dwelling older people

scientific article published on 19 November 2016

Perceived barriers in the outdoor environment and development of walking difficulties in older people

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Perceived environmental barriers to outdoor mobility and changes in sense of autonomy in participation outdoors among older people: a prospective two-year cohort study

Perceived environmental barriers to outdoor mobility and feelings of loneliness among community-dwelling older people

scientific article published on 26 May 2014

Personal goals and changes in life-space mobility among older people

scientific article published on 5 September 2015

Physical Limitations, Walkability, Perceived Environmental Facilitators and Physical Activity of Older Adults in Finland.

scientific article published on 22 March 2017

Prediction of Life Satisfaction in People with Parkinson's Disease

scientific article published on 29 July 2020

Quality of life and barriers in the urban outdoor environment in old age.

scientific article

Sedentary Thresholds for Accelerometry-Based Mean Amplitude Deviation and Electromyography Amplitude in 7-11 Years Old Children

scientific article published on 07 August 2019

Self-Reported Hearing Status Is Associated with Lower Limb Physical Performance, Perceived Mobility, and Activities of Daily Living in Older Community-Dwelling Men and Women

scientific article published on June 2015

Self-reported hearing difficulties and changes in life-space mobility among community-dwelling older adults: a Two-year follow-Up study

scientific article

Self-reported hearing is associated with time spent out-of-home and withdrawal from leisure activities in older community-dwelling adults

scientific article

Socioeconomic Status and Life-Space Mobility in Old Age.

scientific article published on 6 April 2016

Task Modifications in Walking Postpone Decline in Life-Space Mobility Among Community-Dwelling Older People: A 2-year Follow-up Study

scientific article

The Association Between Transportation and Life-Space Mobility in Community-Dwelling Older People With or Without Walking Difficulties

scientific article published on 26 November 2015

The Associations of Activity Fragmentation with Physical and Mental Fatigability among Community-Dwelling 75-, 80- and 85-Year-Old People

scientific article published on 02 July 2020

The Combined Effect of Lower Extremity Function and Cognitive Performance on Perceived Walking Ability Among Older People: A 2-Year Follow-up Study

The Relationship Between Sleep Characteristics and Unmet Physical Activity Need in Older Women

scientific article published on 23 November 2018

The Temporal Association between Executive Function and Life-Space Mobility in Old Age.

scientific article published in November 2017

The association between objectively measured physical activity and life-space mobility among older people

scientific article published on 30 December 2014

The effect of an outdoor activities' intervention delivered by older volunteers on the quality of life of older people with severe mobility limitations: a randomized controlled trial

scientific article

The effect of body mass index, lower extremity performance, and use of a private car on incident life-space restriction: a two-year follow-up study

scientific article published on 08 November 2018

The effect of out-of-home activity intervention delivered by volunteers on depressive symptoms among older people with severe mobility limitations: a randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 13 June 2014

The role of environmental factors for the onset of restricted mobility outside the home among older adults with osteoarthritis: a prospective cohort study.

scientific article published on 30 June 2017

Unmet physical activity need in old age.

scientific article published in April 2010

Use of walking modifications, perceived walking difficulty and changes in outdoor mobility among community-dwelling older people during COVID-19 restrictions

scientific article

Validity of a single question to assess habitual physical activity of community-dwelling older people

scientific article published on 17 October 2016

List of works by Merja Rantakokko

Accumulation of disparity in physical activity in old age

Accumulation of sensory difficulties predicts fear of falling in older women

Active aging - resilience and external support as modifiers of the disablement outcome: AGNES cohort study protocol.

Association between physical performance and sense of autonomy in outdoor activities and life-space mobility in community-dwelling older people

Association of self-reported hearing difficulty to objective and perceived participation outside the home in older community-dwelling adults

Associations Between Accelerometer-Based Free-Living Walking and Self-Reported Walking Capability Among Community-Dwelling Older People

Associations Between Environmental Characteristics and Life-Space Mobility in Community-Dwelling Older People

Associations Between Reasons to Go Outdoors and Objectively-Measured Walking Activity in Various Life-Space Areas Among Older People

Associations between Perceived Outdoor Environment and Walking Modifications in Community-Dwelling Older People: A Two-Year Follow-Up Study

Associations of Environmental Features With Outdoor Physical Activity on Weekdays and Weekend Days: A Cross-Sectional Study Among Older People

Barriers to outdoor physical activity and unmet physical activity need in older adults

Changes in life-space mobility and quality of life among community-dwelling older people: a 2-year follow-up study.

Comment on: A critical analysis of the internal logic in the Life-Space Assessment (LSA) composite score and suggested solutions

Daily Physical Activity and Sedentary Time Assessed by Acceleration Based on Mean Amplitude Deviation among Older People

Developing an Assessment Method of Active Aging: University of Jyvaskyla Active Aging Scale.

Do Associations Between Perceived Environmental and Individual Characteristics and Walking Limitations Depend on Lower Extremity Performance Level?

Effects of a rehabilitation program on perceived environmental barriers in older patients recovering from hip fracture: a randomized controlled trial

Environmental Features Associated With Older Adults' Physical Activity in Different Types of Urban Neighborhoods

Environmental barriers, person-environment fit and mortality among community-dwelling very old people

Environmental facilitators for outdoor walking and development of walking difficulty in community-dwelling older adults

Environmental mobility barriers and walking for errands among older people who live alone vs. with others

Executive function and life-space mobility in old age.

Fear of falling and coexisting sensory difficulties as predictors of mobility decline in older women.

Fear of moving outdoors and development of outdoor walking difficulty in older people

Gait Features in Different Environments Contributing to Participation in Outdoor Activities in Old Age (GaitAge): Protocol for an Observational Cross-Sectional Study

Gait Features in Different Environments Contributing to Participation in Outdoor Activities in Old Age (GaitAge): Protocol for an Observational Cross-Sectional Study (Preprint)

Genetic effects on life-space mobility in older women

Hearing and Quality of Life Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults.

Hilliness and the Development of Walking Difficulties Among Community-Dwelling Older People

Identification of Older People at Risk of ADL Disability Using the Life-Space Assessment: A Longitudinal Cohort Study

Individual and environmental factors underlying life space of older people - study protocol and design of a cohort study on life-space mobility in old age (LISPE).

Individualized counselling for active aging: protocol of a single-blinded, randomized controlled trial among older people (the AGNES intervention study)

Is frailty associated with life-space mobility and perceived autonomy in participation outdoors? A longitudinal study

Laboratory-assessed gait cycle entropy for classifying walking limitations among community-dwelling older adults

Life resources and personal goals in old age.

Life-Space Mobility in Parkinson's Disease: Associations with Motor and Non-Motor Symptoms

Life-space mobility and dimensions of depressive symptoms among community-dwelling older adults

Life-space mobility and quality of life in community-dwelling older people

Life-space mobility assessment in older people in Finland; measurement properties in winter and spring

Minimal toe clearance in older adults when walking on level, uphill and downhill conditions

Mobility Decline in Old Age ⬇️

Mobility Modification Alleviates Environmental Influence on Incident Mobility Difficulty among Community-Dwelling Older People: A Two-Year Follow-Up Study

Moving through Life-Space Areas and Objectively Measured Physical Activity of Older People

Natural History of Social Participation in the Very Old: Findings from the Newcastle 85+ Study

Nature as a facilitator for physical activity: Defining relationships between the objective and perceived environment and physical activity among community-dwelling older people

Nature diversity and well-being in old age.

Neighborhood Mobility and Unmet Physical Activity Need in Old Age: A 2-Year Follow-Up

Objectively Measured Physical Activity and Changes in Life-Space Mobility Among Older People

Older Adults' Physical Activity and the Relevance of Distances to Neighborhood Destinations and Barriers to Outdoor Mobility

Older Women’s Personal Goals and Exercise Activity: An 8-Year Follow-Up

Older women's personal goals and exercise activity: an 8-year follow-up

Outdoor Mobility and Use of Adaptive or Maladaptive Walking Modifications Among Older People

Patterns of functional decline in very old age: an application of latent transition analysis.

Perceived Benefit From Hearing Aid Use and Life-Space Mobility Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults

Perceived Opportunities for Physical Activity and Willingness to Be More Active in Older Adults with Different Physical Activity Levels

Perceived and objective entrance-related environmental barriers and daily out-of-home mobility in community-dwelling older people

Perceived barriers in the outdoor environment and development of walking difficulties in older people

Perceived environmental barriers to outdoor mobility and changes in sense of autonomy in participation outdoors among older people: a prospective two-year cohort study

Perceived environmental barriers to outdoor mobility and feelings of loneliness among community-dwelling older people

Personal goals and changes in life-space mobility among older people

Physical Limitations, Walkability, Perceived Environmental Facilitators and Physical Activity of Older Adults in Finland.

Prediction of Life Satisfaction in People with Parkinson's Disease

Quality of life and barriers in the urban outdoor environment in old age.

Sedentary Thresholds for Accelerometry-Based Mean Amplitude Deviation and Electromyography Amplitude in 7-11 Years Old Children

Self-Reported Hearing Status Is Associated with Lower Limb Physical Performance, Perceived Mobility, and Activities of Daily Living in Older Community-Dwelling Men and Women

Self-reported hearing difficulties and changes in life-space mobility among community-dwelling older adults: a Two-year follow-Up study

Self-reported hearing is associated with time spent out-of-home and withdrawal from leisure activities in older community-dwelling adults

Socioeconomic Status and Life-Space Mobility in Old Age.

Task Modifications in Walking Postpone Decline in Life-Space Mobility Among Community-Dwelling Older People: A 2-year Follow-up Study

The Association Between Transportation and Life-Space Mobility in Community-Dwelling Older People With or Without Walking Difficulties

The Associations of Activity Fragmentation with Physical and Mental Fatigability among Community-Dwelling 75-, 80- and 85-Year-Old People

The Combined Effect of Lower Extremity Function and Cognitive Performance on Perceived Walking Ability Among Older People: A 2-Year Follow-up Study

The Relationship Between Sleep Characteristics and Unmet Physical Activity Need in Older Women

The Temporal Association between Executive Function and Life-Space Mobility in Old Age.

The association between objectively measured physical activity and life-space mobility among older people

The effect of an outdoor activities' intervention delivered by older volunteers on the quality of life of older people with severe mobility limitations: a randomized controlled trial

The effect of body mass index, lower extremity performance, and use of a private car on incident life-space restriction: a two-year follow-up study

The effect of out-of-home activity intervention delivered by volunteers on depressive symptoms among older people with severe mobility limitations: a randomized controlled trial

The role of environmental factors for the onset of restricted mobility outside the home among older adults with osteoarthritis: a prospective cohort study.