TY - JOUR AU - Hanapi, Nurul Liyana AU - Sheikh Ahmad, Sabarinah AU - Abd Razak, Azli AU - Ibrahim, Norhati PY - 2019/12/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Contribution of the Built Environment towards Elderlies’ Quality of Life and Risk of Falling JF - Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal JA - E-BPJ VL - 4 IS - 12 SE - Elderly Environment DO - 10.21834/e-bpj.v4i12.1939 UR - https://ebpj.e-iph.co.uk/index.php/EBProceedings/article/view/1939 SP - 101-107 AB - <a style="cursor: pointer;" href="https://crossmark.crossref.org/dialog?doi=10.21834/e-bpj.v4i12.1939&amp;domain=ebpj.e-iph.co.uk&amp;uri_scheme=http;cm_version=v2.0" data-target="crossmark"><img src="/xmark.jpg" alt="" /></a><p>Recent study trends on elderlies range from improving their quality of life to reducing the risk of falling. This paper investigates current concerns on the risk of any untoward fall or injury of elderly residents in public housing due to the rising number of the elderly population. This study aims to analyze published literature with a focus on finding a non-semantic relation on the built environment with the elderly quality of life and risk of falling. Results show that a pleasant environment could introduce social activities in which significantly improves the quality of life and reduce fall risk among the elderly population.</p><p>Keywords: elderly; quality of life; fall risk; environment.</p><p><em>eISSN: 2398-4287 </em><em>© 2019. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning &amp; Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.</em></p><p>DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v4i12.1939</p> ER -