Mobility, Activity and Social Interactions in the Lives of Healthy Older Adults (MOASIS)

Project Leaders: Dr. Christina Röcke, Prof. Dr. Robert Weibel, Prof. Dr. Mike Martin

Project Members: Dr. Minxia Luo, Changyu Han, Alexandros Sofios

In this project we monitor activity data from 150+ community-dwelling older adults aged 65+ years over 30 days using a custom-built sensor (“uTrail”) including a GPS tracker, an accelerometer, and a microphone to capture mobility (i.e., spatial activity), physical activity and social activity in daily life. In addition, during the first 2 weeks of wearing the uTrail, participants respond to seven daily prompts from a smartphone and record their current experiences, perceptions and feelings as well as perform a short numerical updating task as a measure of momentary working memory performance in daily life. The goal of the project is to examine within-person activity profiles both within and across domains, within-person couplings between activities, self-reports and cognition, and the degree to which a wide range of dispositional quality of life and performance measures can explain interindividual differences in the intraindividual profiles.

Links

Study Protocol

Brief Summary on select T1-findings (PDF, 184 KB) (in German)

UZH Magazin feature (see p. 29)

SNF-project profile for MAMBHA (collaborative project with MOASIS)

Publications

Luo, M., Moulder, R. G., Breitfelder, L. K., & Röcke, C. (2024). Activity diversity and well-being in daily life: Evidence for heterogeneity between older adults. Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, gbae025.

Luo, M., Moulder, R. G., Weber, E., & Röcke, C. (2023). The mediating role of affective states in short-term effects of activity engagement on working memory in older age. Gerontology, DOI: 10.1159/000534130.

Luo, M.; Moulder, R. G.; & Röcke, C. (2023). The short-term effects of activity engagement on working memory performance in older age. Psychology and Aging, 38(2):117-131.

Luo, M.; Moulder, R. G.; Breitfelder, L. K.; & Röcke, C. (2023). Daily activity diversity and daily working memory in community-dwelling older adults. Neuropsychology, 37(2):181-193.

Röcke, C.; Luo, M.; Bereuter, P.; Katana, M.; Fillekes, M.; Gehriger, V.; Sofios, A.; Martin, M.; & Weibel, R. (2023). Charting everyday activities in later life: Study protocol of the mobility, activity, and social interactions study (MOASIS). Frontiers in Psychology, 13:1011177.

Luo, M.; Kim, E.-K.; Weibel, R.; Martin, M.; & Röcke, C. (2023). GPS-derived daily mobility and daily well-being in community-dwelling older adults. Gerontology:1-13.

Kim, E.-K; Conrow, L.; Röcke, C.; Chaix, B.; Weibel, R.; & Perchoux, C. (2023). Advances and challenges in sensor-based research in mobility, health, and place. Health & Place, 79:102972.

Botros, A. A.; Schuetz, N.; Röcke, C.; Weibel, R.; Martin, M.; Müri, R. M.; & Nef, T. (2022). Eigenbehaviour as an Indicator of Cognitive Abilities. Sensors, 22(7):2769.

Allahbakhshi, H., Röcke, C., & Weibel, R. (2021). Assessing the Transferability of Physical Activity Type Detection Models: Influence of Age Group Is Underappreciated. Frontiers in Physiology, 12:738939.

Fillekes, M. P., Röcke, C., Katana, M., & Weibel, R. (2019). Self-reported versus GPS-derived indicators of daily mobility in healthy aging research: Findings from the MOASIS Project. Social Science & Medicine, 220, 193-202.