Can the Belgian Coastal Environment Improve Physical and Cognitive Health in Older Adults?

Launched by UNIVERSITY GHENT · Mar 17, 2025

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • You are willing to make the time needed to complete the experiment. You understand and can communicate in Dutch. You are 60 years or older and retired. You are familiar with the city of Ostend. This means you visit Ostend multiple times per year and are preferably familiar with the area around the Grote Post and Fort Napoleon.
• • You smoke no more than 10 cigarettes per day. You are able and comfortable walking for approximately 30 minutes at an average pace without aids such as a cane or walker.
• • You do not have a pacemaker. You are not blind or deaf. You do not take tricyclic antidepressants or clozapine.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • People who cannot participate in the entire experiment, do not speak Dutch, are under 60 years old or not yet retired, have a pacemaker, are blind or deaf, take tricyclic antidepressants or clozapine, are not at all familiar with the city of Ostend, smoke more than 10 cigarettes per day, or are unable to walk for 30 minutes continuously without aids are not eligible to participate in the experiment.