Well-being and Mobility: A Theoretical Framework and Literature Review Focusing on Older People

Susanne Nordbakke and Tim Schwanen

Mobilities, 2014, vol. 9, issue 1, 104-129

Abstract: There is an increasing attention for how mobility is associated with well-being amongst people in general and older adults in particular. Comparisons across research projects and articles are, however, hampered by the different understandings and conceptualisations of well-being that are employed. We, firstly, develop a heuristic framework for understanding the concept of well-being, and secondly, use this to explore possible linkages between well-being and mobility and to critically examine the various conceptualisations of well-being in research on mobility in later life. It is argued that future work on well-being and mobility should consider both the objective and the subjective and the hedonic and eudaimonic dimensions of well-being, and should pay detailed attention to the multiple ways in which well-being and its linkages to mobility are context-dependent and shaped by the particularities of time and place.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2013.784542

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