Older People’s External Residential Assessment Tool (OPERAT): a complementary participatory and metric approach to the development of an observational environmental measure

Burholt, Vanessa; Roberts, Matthew; Musselwhite, Charles

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Older People’s External Residential Assessment Tool (OPERAT): a complementary participatory and metric approach to the development of an observational environmental measure

Vanessa Burholt

, Matthew Roberts, Charles Musselwhite

BMC Public Health, Volume: 16, Issue: 1

Swansea University Authors: Vanessa Burholt , Matthew Roberts, Charles Musselwhite

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BackgroundThe potential for environmental interventions to improve health and wellbeing has assumed particular importance in the face of unprecedented population ageing. However, presently observational environmental assessment tools are unsuitable for ‘all ages’. This article describes the developm...

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