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      Virtual tourism for older adults living in residential care: A mixed-methods study

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          Due to financial and mobility barriers, a majority of older adults living in collective dwellings are no longer able to engage in tourism, a leisure activity that contributes to quality of life and wellbeing. Immersive Virtual Reality (VR) may serve as a programmatic tool to facilitate tourism. This pilot study examined the effects of VR tourism exposure on indices of psychosocial wellbeing among older adults living in residential care. Using a mixed-methods study design, 18 older adults were exposed to VR tourism three times a week, over six weeks. Participants reported decreased anxiety and fatigue immediately following exposure, and increased social engagement and quality of life following six weeks of VR tourism. Qualitative data offered additional insight on the process by which VR tourism may enhance wellbeing. Findings suggest that immersive VR tourism may be a viable program for older adults in residential care.

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                Journal
                PLoS One
                PLoS One
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                plosone
                PLoS ONE
                Public Library of Science (San Francisco, CA USA )
                1932-6203
                20 May 2021
                2021
                : 16
                : 5
                : e0250761
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Department of Psychology, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
                [2 ] Ted Rogers School of Retail Management, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
                [3 ] RTA School of Media, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
                Institute of Mental Health, SINGAPORE
                Author notes

                Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

                Author information
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9353-476X
                https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5345-2711
                https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6341-070X
                Article
                PONE-D-20-34398
                10.1371/journal.pone.0250761
                8136674
                34014948
                4c00f934-5469-472b-af88-744eaf0951a0
                © 2021 Fiocco et al

                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

                History
                : 1 November 2020
                : 13 April 2021
                Page count
                Figures: 0, Tables: 3, Pages: 15
                Funding
                Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100007891, Ryerson University;
                Award Recipient :
                This research was funded by the Ryerson Health Research Fund (AJF) and RECODE (AJF). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
                Categories
                Research Article
                People and Places
                Population Groupings
                Age Groups
                Adults
                Elderly
                Engineering and Technology
                Electronics Engineering
                Computer Engineering
                Man-Computer Interface
                Virtual Reality
                Computer and Information Sciences
                Computer Architecture
                User Interfaces
                Virtual Reality
                Medicine and Health Sciences
                Health Care
                Quality of Life
                Medicine and Health Sciences
                Mental Health and Psychiatry
                Mood Disorders
                Depression
                Geriatric Depression
                Medicine and Health Sciences
                Geriatrics
                Geriatric Psychiatry
                Geriatric Depression
                Medicine and Health Sciences
                Mental Health and Psychiatry
                Geriatric Psychiatry
                Geriatric Depression
                Biology and Life Sciences
                Psychology
                Emotions
                Social Sciences
                Psychology
                Emotions
                Medicine and Health Sciences
                Mental Health and Psychiatry
                Mood Disorders
                Depression
                Biology and Life Sciences
                Psychology
                Emotions
                Happiness
                Social Sciences
                Psychology
                Emotions
                Happiness
                Social Sciences
                Economics
                Finance
                Custom metadata
                The data underlying this study are available on Mendeley (DOI: 10.17632/cxygw32v67.1).

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