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Neighbouring networks and environmental dependency
— differential effects of neighbourhood characteristics on the relative size and composition of neighbouring networks of older adults in the Netherlands | | Author(s) | Fleur Thomése, Theo van Tilburg |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 20, part 1, January 2000 |
| Pages | pp 55-78 |
| Keywords | Neighbourhoods, communities etc ; Urban areas ; Living patterns ; Social contacts ; Personal relationships ; Informal care ; Social surveys ; Netherlands. |
| Annotation | The effects of four social-structural neighbourhood characteristics on the relative size and the composition of neighbouring networks are tested in a sample of some 3,500 older adults born between 1908 and 1937 and living in three different regions of the Netherlands. Interactions with individual income and activities of daily living (ADL) capacity are included in multi-level regression analyses, to test the effects of older adults' environmental dependency. Population density and residential mobility both have a negative effect on the relative size of the neighbouring network, and the effects of urbanisation is strongest among the poorest respondents. These findings suggest, first, that the structural effects of urbanisation work at the level of concentration versus dispersion of personal networks, and second, that there is no general mechanism of environmental dependency. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000307203 A |
| Classmark | RH: RK: K7: TOA: DS: P6: 3F: 76H |
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