Changes in outdoor physical activities among older people in Sweden: Exploring generational shifts in time spent in natural environments

Abstract

Key Messages Spending active time in natural environments increases sharply in the years after retirement, the pattern remaining when cohorts move into older phases. Aside from spatially segregated activities connected with housing situations, no substantial social differences in time spent in natural environments emerge. There is a need for enabling proximate access to green spaces and publicly available plots for cultivation, challenging ongoing urban densification.

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