Published in 2026

• Effectiveness of nature-based group intervention in loneliness and health-related quality-of-life in lonely older adults living in assisted living facilities—a randomised controlled trial  Kaisu H Pitkälä, Laura Rautiainen, Hannu Kautiainen, Ulla L Aalto, Annika Kolster, Marja-Liisa Laakkonen, Timo Partonen, Hanna-Maria Roitto, Sibylle Puntscher, Ursula Rochau, Uwe Siebert, Alzbeta Bartova, Iva Holmerová, Laura Coll-Planas, Jill S Litt, Timo Strandberg, Anu H Jansson – Age and Ageing, Volume 55, Issue 2, February 2026, afag009, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afag009 
• Pitkälä, K. H., Rautiainen, L. J., Aalto, U. L., Kolster, A., Laakkonen, M. L., Lehtonen, R., … Jansson, A. H. (2026). Adapting and applying a group facilitator training model to support nature-based social interventions for alleviating loneliness in five countries. Educational Gerontology, 1–17.

Published in 2025

• Kolster A, Rautiainen LR, Aalto UL, Jansson A, Partonen T, Sachs AL, Litt JS, Masó-Aguado M, Pitkala KH. The importance of nature and wishes for nature-based experiences among older adults in assisted living facilities. Gerontol Nurs 2025;63:300-306. 
• Rautiainen, L., Jansson, A., Pitkälä, K., Aalto, U., & Kolster, A. (2025). Luontokokemukset iäkkäiden ihmisten kuntoutumisen tukena ympärivuorokautisessa palveluasumisessa. Kuntoutus, 48(4), 29-42. 
• Conceptualising a Community-Based Response to Loneliness: The Representational Anchoring of Nature-Based Social Prescription by Professionals in Marseille, Insights from the RECETAS Project by Lucie Cattaneo, Alexandre Daguzan, Gabriela García Vélez and Stéphanie Gentile – Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2025, 22(9), 1400; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph22091400 
• Happy by Nature: Nature Connection as a Source of Psychological Well-Being in Assisted Living Facilities Author links open overlay panel Annika Kolster M , Ulla L. Aalto MD, PhD,Timo Partonen MD, PhD,Hannu Kautiainen PhD, Laura J. Rautiainen MSc, Anu Jansson PhD, Jill S. Litt PhD, Montse Masó-Aguado RN, Env, Kaisu H. Pitkälä MD, PhD 
• Nature-based interventions for mental well-being – Naturbaserade interventioner för psykiskt välbefinnande Finska Läkaresällskapets handlingar 2/2024

Published in 2024

• Scientific commentary by Muhl… Jansson… et al. Building common understanding: seeking consensus and defining social prescribing across contexts – a collective commentary on a Delphi study. BMC Health Serv Res 24, 1280 (2024) 
• Sachs, AL., Maso-Aguado, M., Bach, A, Opacin, N, Hill, N, Cattaneo, L, Coll Planas, L, Litt, JS, Bekessy, S (2024). Research note: Capturing the dose of nature in nature-based interventions to reduce loneliness. MethodsX, Volume 13, 102969. DOI: 10.1016/j.mex.2024.102969.

• Pitkälä KH, Rautiainen L, Aalto UL, Kautiainen H, Kolster A, Laakkonen ML, Partonen T, Roitto HM, Strandberg TE, Opacin N, Puntscher S, Siebert U, Coll-Planas L, Sachs AL, Litt JS, Jansson AH. The RECETAS Consortium (2024), Participants’ baseline characteristics and feedback of the nature-based social intervention “Friends in Nature” among lonely older adults in assisted living facilities in Finland: a randomised controlled trial of the RECETAS EU-project, BMC Geriatrics, Vol 24 (1), 812. DOI: 10.1186/s12877-024-05408-0.

• Vert, C, Litt, JS, Gascón, M, Roqué, M, Masó, M, Opacin, N, Garcia, G, Jansson, A, Cattaneo, L, Bártová, A, Briones-Buixassa, L, Carbó, A, Rautiainen, L, Hidalgo, L, Sachs, A, Domènech, S, Blancafort-Alias, S, Homerová, I, Pitkälä, K, Coll-Planas, L. (2024) Evaluating the feasibility of “Friends in Nature”, a complex nature-based social intervention to address loneliness and quality of life in six cities worldwide. Pilot and Feasibility Studies 10, 146. DOI: 10.1186/s40814-024-01575-4

• Coll-Planas, L., Carbó-Cardeña, A., Jansson, A., Dostálová, V., Bartova, A., Rautiainen, L., Kolster, A., Masó-Aguado, M., Briones-Buixassa, L., Blancafort-Alias, S., Roqué-Figuls, M., Sachs, A. L., Casajuana, C., Siebert, U., Rochau, U., Puntscher, S., Holmerová, I., Pitkälä, K. H., Litt, J. S. (2024)  Nature-based social interventions to address loneliness among vulnerable populations: a common study protocol for three related randomized controlled trials in Barcelona, Helsinki, and Prague within the RECETAS European project. BMC Public Health 24, 172. 
• Scientific paper/EU policy guideline/Best practice by Jansson A (peer reviewed): Circle of Friends, an intervention for alleviating loneliness of older adults. Best practice in the field of mental health
   
• Building common understanding: seeking consensus and defining social prescribing across contexts – a collective commentary on a Delphi study
   
• Scientific article by Pitkala KH, et al. Feasibility and baseline findings of the nature-based social intervention “Friends in nature” in a randomised controlled trial among lonely people living in assisted living facilities in Finland within the RECETAS European project.. BMC Geriaatrics 2024 
• Tate, W., Sachs, AL, Litt, JS., Razani, N., Chawla, L. (2024). Nature Prescribing or Nature Programming? Complementary Practices to Increase Time in Nature to Support Mental Health. Ecopsychology (In Press). 
• Sachs, A. L., Kolster, A., Wrigley, J., Papon, V., Opacin, N., Hill, N., Howarth, M., Rochau, U., Hidalgo, L., Casajuana, C., Siebert, U., Gerhard, J., Daher, C., Litt, J. C.,  (2024). Connecting through nature: A systematic review of the effectiveness of nature-based social prescribing practices to combat loneliness. Landscape and Urban Planning, Volume 248; DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105071

Published in 2023

• Litt, J. S., Coll-Planas, L., Sachs, A. L., Rochau, U., Jansson, A., Dostálová, V., Daher, C., Beacom, A., Bachinski, K., Garcia-Velez, G., Bekessy, S., Blancafort-Alias, S., Hill, N., Gascón, M., Bartova, A., Cattaneo, L., Cucchiaro, A., Casajuana Kögel, C., Opacin, N., Colom, J., Gentile, S., Holmerová, I., Johnson, K., Kimberlee, R., Siebert, U., Varda, D., Pitkälä, K. H. (2024). Nature-based social interventions for people experiencing loneliness: the rationale and overview of the RECETAS project. Cities & Health, 1–14. 
• Litt, JS., Coll-Planas, L., Sachs, A., Masó Aguado, M., Howarth, M., (2023). Current Trends and Future Directions in Urban Social Prescribing, Current Environmental Health Reports. 
• Celia Santos-Tapia, Laura Hidalgo, Pol Jimenez-Arenas, Cristina Casajuana, Sara Domènech, Aida Ballester-Lledó, Jill Litt, Ashby Sachs, Gabriela Garcia, Sergi Blancafort-Alias, Co-Creating a Nature-Based Social Prescription Intervention in Urban Socioeconomically Deprived Neighbourhoods: A Case Study from RECETAS Project in Barcelona, Spain, Health & Social Care in the Community, vol. 2023, Article ID 6616991, 16 pages, 2023.

Published in 2022

• Jansson A, Rautiainen L, Kolster A, Aalto U, Partonen T, Pitkälä K. RECETAS-projekti selvittää luontoelämysten vaikutuksia ympärivuorokautisessa hoidossa asuvien iäkkäiden ihmisten yksinäisyyteen. Gerontologia 2022;(2):199-203. 
• Jansson A, Pitkälä KH, Karisto A. Listening to the voice of older people: dimensions of loneliness in assisted living facilities. Ageing & Society  27 Jan 2022, 1-18.