Hady Khaddaj Mallat
University of Sherbrooke, Canada
Title: Risk factors affecting elderly people in outdoor daily life activities: A review
Biography
Biography: Hady Khaddaj Mallat
Abstract
Elderly people are a demographic sector which has been rapidly increasing during recent years in most countries. In this paper, a risk represents the probability of an unwanted event or danger situation which may occur and cause a possible loss, injury or other unwelcome circumstance, and an outdoor environment is considered to be outside home or any open-air ambience. In this review, we list and describe risk factors that affect elderly people in outdoor environments and that may occur during their outdoor daily activities such as fall, wandering, health issues, etc. Our goal is to help readers to better understanding the risk management and intervention which consequently improves the quality of life for elderly people. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first review about major risks that affect elderly people in outdoor environments.