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The ENABLE-AGE Project Final Report, documents available for download in PDF-format

ENABLE-AGE Questionnaires

ENABLE-AGE Project Summary
ENABLE-AGE Preface

First Results ENABLE-AGE In-Depth Study First Results ENABLE-AGE Survey First Results ENABLE-AGE Update Review Implications for Practice Knowledge Dissemination, Published Original Publications Methodology
ENABLE-AGE Publications

  • Iwarsson, S., Oswald, F., Wahl, H.-W., Sixsmith, J., Sixsmith, J., Széman, Z., & Tomsone, S. (2004, July). Home and health in very old age: New perspectives on an old topic? Paper presented in the symposium Home and health in very old age across Europe: Preliminary findings from the ENABLE-AGE project at the 18th Conference of the iaps: Strategies for environmental research and implementation, Vienna, Austria.
  • Naumann, D., Sixsmith, J., Kucsera, C., Dahlin-Ivanoff, S., & Iwarsson, S. (2004, July). Structure and Meaning of Participation in Very Old Age – Preliminary from a qualitative in-depth study of the European project ENABLE-AGE. Paper presented in the symposium Participation Processes Used in Person-Environment Practice and Research at the 18th Conference of the iaps: Strategies for environmental research and implementation, Vienna, Austria.
  • Oswald, F., Fänge, A., Nygren, C., Iwarsson, S., & Wahl, H.-W. (2004, July). Housing and healthy ageing in very old age: Results from the ENABLE-AGE project. Paper presented in the workshop "Housing and Health" at the ENHR 2004 International Research Conference Cambridge, UK.
  • Oswald, F., Iwarsson, S., Nygren, C., Tomsone, S., & Wahl, H.-W. (2004, July). Objective and subjective aspects of home in old age: A survey approach. Paper presented in the symposium Home and health in very old age across Europe: Preliminary findings from the ENABLE-AGE project at the 18th Conference of the iaps: Strategies for environmental research and implementation, Vienna, Austria.
  • Oswald, F., Sixsmith, J. (2004, July). Home and health in very old age across Europe: Preliminary findings from the ENABLE-AGE project. Symposium at the 18th Conference of the iaps: Strategies for environmental research and implementation, Vienna, Austria.
  • Iwarsson, S., Oswald, F., Wahl, H-W., Sixsmith, A., Sixsmith, J., Széman, Z., Mollenkopf, H., & Tomsone, S. (2001). Enabling autonomy, participation, and well-being in old age: The home environment as a determinant for healthy ageing. ENABLE-AGE. Proposal (funded) to the European Commission; QLRT-2001-00334. Lund University, Sweden. http://www.enableage.arb.lu.se .
  • Iwarsson, S., Oswald, F., Wahl, H-W., Sixsmith, A., Sixsmith, J., Széman, Z., Mollenkopf, H., & Tomsone, S. (2003). Enabling autonomy, participation, and well-being in old age: The home environment as a determinant for healthy ageing. ENABLE-AGE. Poster, European Commission project QLRT-2001-00334. Lund University, Sweden.
  • Iwarsson, S., Oswald, F., Wahl, H-W., Sixsmith, A., Sixsmith, J., Széman, Z., & Tomsone, S. (2003). Enabling autonomy, participation, and well-being in old age: The home environment as a determinant for healthy ageing. ENABLE-AGE. Vth IAG European Region Congress of Gerontology, Barcelona, Spain, July 2-5.
  • Oswald, F. & Iwarsson, S. (2003). Aging in place and healthy aging in very old age: Results from the ENABLE-AGE Project. Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, San Diego, USA, Nov 21-25. Submitted.
  • Iwarsson, S., Oswald, F., Wahl, H-W., Mollenkopf, H., Sixsmith, A., Széman, Z., Mollenkopf, H., Tomsone, S., & Sixsmith, J. (2003). Enabling autonomy, participation, and well-being in old age: The home environment as a determinant for healthy ageing. ENABLE-AGE. Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, San Diego, USA, Nov 21-25. Submitted.
  • Iwarsson, S., Oswald, F., Sixsmith, A., Széman, Z., Tomsone, S., & Sixsmith, J. (2003). Enabling autonomy, participation, and well-being in old age: The home environment as a determinant for healthy ageing. European Commission project QLRT-2001-00334. In Research Directorate General, European Commission. Key Action 6: The Ageing Population and their Disabilities, 201-02. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities.
  • Iwarsson, S., Sixsmith, J., Oswald, F., Wahl, H-W., Sixsmith, S., Szeman, Z., & Tomsone, S. (2003). The ENABLE-AGE Project: Multi-Dimensional Quantitative and Qualitative Methodology for European Housing Research. Methodologies in Housing Research Conference, Sept 22-24, Stockholm, Sweden. Submitted.

Related publications from the ENABLE-AGE Consortium

  • Brandt, Å., Iwarsson, S., & Ståhl, A. Satisfaction with rollators among community-living users: A follow-up study. Disability and Rehabilitation, in press.
  • Carlsson, G., Iwarsson, S., & Ståhl, A. (2002). The personal component of accessibility: Exploring the complexity of functional capacity. Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 9, 100-108.
  • Fänge, A., & Iwarsson, S. (1999). Physical housing environment - development of a self-assessment instrument. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 66, (5), 250-260.
  • Iwarsson, S. (1997). Functional Capacity and Physical Environmental Demand. Exploration of Factors Influencing Everyday Activity and Health in the Elderly Population. ISBN 91-628-2351-5. Doctoral dissertation. Department of Community Health Sciences, Lund University. Sweden: Lund University.
  • Iwarsson, S., & Isacsson, Å. (1993). Basic accessibility in modern housing - a key to the problems of care in the domestic setting. Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 7, (3), pp 155-159.
  • Iwarsson, S., & Isacsson, Å. (1996). Development of a novel instrument for occupational therapy assessment of the physical environment in the home - A methodologic study on "The Enabler". Occupational Therapy Journal of Research, 16, (4), 227-244.
  • Iwarsson, S., & Isacsson, Å. (1996). Housing standards, environmental barriers in the home, and subjective general apprehension of housing situation among the rural elderly. Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 3 (2), 52-61.
  • Iwarsson, S., & Isacsson, Å. (1997). On scaling methodology and environmental influences in disability assessments: The cumulative structure of personal and instrumental ADL among older adults in a Swedish rural district. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 64, 240-251.
  • Iwarsson, S., Isacsson, Å., Persson, D., & Scherstén, B. (1997). Occupation and survival: A 25-year follow-up study of an ageing Swedish population. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 52, (1), 65-70.
  • Iwarsson, S., & Isacsson, Å. (1997). Quality of Life in the elderly population: An example exploring interrelationships among subjective well-being, ADL dependence, and housing accessibility. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 26, (1), 71-83.
  • Iwarsson, S., (1998). Environmental influences on the cumulative structure of instrumental ADL: An example in osteoporosis patients in a Swedish rural district. Clinical Rehabilitation, 12, (3) 221-227.
  • Iwarsson, S., Isacsson, Å., & Lanke, J. (1998). ADL dependence in the elderly: The influence of functional limitations and physical environmental demand. Occupational Therapy International, 5, (3), 173-193.
  • Iwarsson, S., Samuelsson, G., & Hagberg, B. (1999). Generic daily occupation: Construct validity and empirical testing of predicting factors in an aging population. Occupational Therapy International, 6 (2), 77-89.
  • Iwarsson, S. (1999). The Housing Enabler: An objective tool for assessing accessibility. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 62, (11), 491-97.
  • Iwarsson, S. & Slaug, B. (2001). The Housing Enabler. An Instrument for Assessing and Analysing Accessibility Problems in Housing. Nävlinge and Staffanstorp: Veten & Skapen HB & Slaug Data Management.
  • Iwarsson, S. & Ståhl, A. (2003). Accessibility, usability, and universal design - Positioning and definition of concepts describing person-environment relationships. Disability and Rehabilitation, 25, 57-66.
  • Iwarsson, S., Ståhl, A., & Carlsson, G. Accessible transportation - Novel occupational therapy perspectives. In: Letts, L., Rigby, P., & Stewart, D. (Eds.). Using Environments to Enable Occupational Performance. New York: SLACK Incorporated. In press.
  • Iwarsson, S. (in press). Assessing the fit between older people and their home environments - An occupational therapy research perspective. In H.-W. Wahl, R. Scheidt, & P. Windley (Eds.), Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics: Vol. 23. Environments, Gerontology and Old Age. New York: Springer Publ.
  • Jensen, G., Iwarsson, S., & Ståhl, A. (2002). Theoretical understanding and methodological challenges in accessibility assessments focusing the environmental component: An example from travel chains in urban public bus transport. Disability and Rehabilitation, 24, (5), 231-242.
  • Meyer, S., & Mollenkopf, H. (in press). Home technology, smart home, and the aging user. In K. W. Schaie, H.-W. Wahl, H. Mollenkopf, & F. Oswald (Eds.), Aging independently: Living arrangements and mobility. New York: Springer.
  • Mollenkopf, H. & Fozard, J. (in press). Technology and the good life: Challenges for current and future generations of aging people. In H.-W. Wahl, R. Scheidt, & P. Windley (Eds.), Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics: Vol. 23. Environments, Gerontology and Old Age. New York: Springer Publ.
  • Murray, C. and Sixsmith, J. (2002) Qualitative health research via the Internet: Practical and methodological issues. Health Informatics Journal, 8(1), 47-53, (7).
  • Murray, C. and Sixsmith, J. (1998) E-mail: A qualitative research medium for interviewing? International Journal of Social Research Methodology: Theory and Practice, 1 (2), 103-121.
  • Nygren, C., Iwarsson, S., & Dehlin, O. (2000). Exploration of subjective well-being and dependence in daily activities at the beginning of the geriatric rehabilitation process: A challenge to traditional goal-setting and evaluation procedures? Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 30, (3), 173-184.
  • Nygren, C., Iwarsson, S., Isacsson, Å., & Dehlin, O. (2001). Quality of care in geriatric rehabilitation: Clients' perceptions, ADL dependence, and subjective well-being in a one-year perspective Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 8, (3), 148-156.
  • Oswald, F. (2003). Linking subjective housing needs to objective living conditions among older adults in Germany. In K. W. Schaie, H.-W. Wahl, H. Mollenkopf, & F. Oswald (Eds.), Aging independently: Living arrangements and mobility (pp. 130-147). New York: Springer.
  • Oswald, F., & Wahl, H.-W. (in press). Dimensions of the meaning of home. In G. D. Rowles & H. Chaudhury (Eds.), Coming home: International perspectives on place, time and identity in old age. New York: Springer Publ.
  • Oswald, F., Wahl, H.-W., Mollenkopf, H., & Schilling, O. (2003). Housing and life-satisfaction of older adults in two rural regions in Germany. Research on Aging, 25 (2), 122-143.
  • Oswald, F., Wahl, H.-W., Martin, M., & Mollenkopf, H. (2003). Toward measuring proactivity in person-environment transactions in late adulthood: The housing-related Control Beliefs Questionnaire. Journal of Housing for the Elderly, 17 (1/2) 135-152.
  • Oswald, F., Schilling, O., Wahl, H.-W., & Gäng, K. (2002). Trouble in paradise? Reasons to relocate and objective environmental changes among well-off older adults. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 22 (3), 273-288.
  • Rowles, G. D., Oswald, F. & Hunter, E. G. (2004). Interior living environments in old age. In H.-W. Wahl, R. Scheidt & P. G. Windley (Eds.), Aging in context: Socio-physical environments (Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 2003) (pp. 167-193). New York: Springer.
  • Schaie, K. W., Wahl, H.-W., Mollenkopf, M. & Oswald, F. (Eds.), Aging independently: Living arrangements and mobility. New York: Springer.
  • Sixsmith, A. and Sixsmith, J. (1995) 'Gerontechnology': New technology and the older person. Journal of the British Society of Gerontology, 5 (3), 11-12.
  • Sixsmith, A and Sixsmith J. (2001) Smart home technologies: Meeting whose needs? Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 6 (1), 190-192
  • Sixsmith, J. (1986) The meaning of home: An exploratory study of environmental experience. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 6, 281-298.
  • Sixsmith, J. (1991) Housing, dwellings and home: A review. Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, 8 (1), 83-85.
  • Sixsmith, J. (2002) Enabling Future Care. M.Moore et al (2000): A review. Disability and Society.
  • Sixsmith, J. and Boneham, M. (2002) Exploring social capital in narrative accounts of life transitions. Auto/Biography, 10, (1&2), 123-130.
  • Sixsmith, J., Boneham, M. and Goldring, J. (2003) Accessing the community: Gaining insider perspectives from the outside. Qualitative Health Journal. 13(4), 578-589.
  • Sixsmith, J. and Boneham, M. (2002) Men and masculinities: Stories of health and social capital. In C.Swann and A. Morgan (eds). Social Capital for health: Insights from qualitative research. London: Health Development Agency.
  • Sixsmith, J. and Sixsmith, A. (1990) Places in transition: The impact of life events on the experience of home. In Putnam, T. and Newton, C. (eds.) Household Choices, London: Futures Publications.
  • Sixsmith J. and Sixsmith, A. (1996) The Role of Educational Television in Influencing the Attitudes and Lifestyles of Older People. In H. Mollenkopf (ed.). Elderly People in Industrialised Societies. WZB: Berlin.
  • Slaug, B. & Iwarsson, S. (2001). Housing Enabler 1.0 - A Tool for Housing Accessibility Analysis. Software for PCs. Staffanstorp and Nävlinge: Slaug Data Management AB & Veten & Skapen HB.
  • Slaug, B. & Iwarsson, S. (2001, continuously updated). http://www.enabler.nu . Website for the Enabler Concept and the Housing Enabler.
  • Wahl, H.-W., Scheidt, R., & Windley, P. (Guest Editors).(in press). Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 23, Issue on "Environments, Gerontology, and Old Age". New York: Springer.
  • Wahl, H.-W. (2001). Environmental influences on aging and behavior. In J. E. Birren & K. W. Schaie (Eds.), Handbook of the Psychology of Aging (5th ed.) (pp. 215-237). San Diego: Academic Press.
  • Wahl, H.-W., Oswald, F., & Zimprich, D. (1999). Everyday competence in visually impaired older adults: A case for Person-Environment perspectives. The Gerontologist, 39 (2), 140-149.
  • Wahl, H.-W., Schilling, O., Oswald, F., & Heyl, V. (1999). Psychological consequences of age-related visual impairment: Comparison with mobility-impaired older adults and long-term outcome. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 54B (5), P304-P316.
  • Wahl, H.-W., & Weisman, J. (in press). Environmental gerontology at the beginning of the new millennium: Reflections on its historical, empirical, and theoretical development. The Gerontologist (Part of a The Forum section on environmental gerontology in honor of M. P. Lawton).
  • Wahl, H.-W., & Gitlin, L. (in press). Future developments in living environments for older people in the United States and Germany. In K. W. Schaie, H.-W. Wahl, H. Mollenkopf, & F. Oswald (Eds.), Aging independently: Living arrangements and mobility. New York: Springer.
  • Werngren-Elgström, M., Dehlin, O., & Iwarsson, S. Aspects of Quality of Life in persons with pre-lingual deafness using sign language: Subjective wellbeing, ill-health symptoms, depression and insomnia. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, in press.
  • Oswald, F., & Wahl, H.-W. (in press). Housing and health in later life. Reviews of Environmental Health.
  • Oswald, F., & Rowles, G. D. (in press). Beyond the relocation trauma in old age: New trends in today's elders' residential decisions. In H.-W. Wahl, C. Tesch-Römer, & A. Hoff (Eds.), New Dynamics in Old Age: Environmental and Societal Perspectives. Amityville, New York: Baywood Publ.

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