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| Urban neighborhoods and depressive symptoms among older adults | | Author(s) | Carol S Aneshensel, Richard G Wight, Dana Miller-Martinez |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 62B, no 1, January 2007 |
| Pages | pp S52-S59 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Depression ; Symptoms ; Urban areas ; Economic status [elderly] ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Data from the Study of Assets and Health Dynamics among the Oldest Old (AHEAD), a 1993 US national probability sample of non-institutionalised people born in 1923 or earlier (i.e. people aged 70+) and neighbourhood data from the 1990 Census were used to determine whether depressive symptoms in older people vary across urban neighbourhoods. The average number of depressive symptoms varies across Census tracts independent of individual-level characteristics. Symptoms are not significantly associated with neighbourhood, socio-economic status (SES), ethnic composition or age structure when individual-level characteristics are controlled statistically. However, net of individual-level characteristics, symptoms are positively associated with neighbourhood residential stability. The study shows that apparent neighbourhood-level socio-economic effects on depressive symptoms in urban-dwelling older people are largely if not entirely compositional in nature. Further, residential stability in the urban neighbourhood may not be emotionally beneficial to its older residents. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070926226 A |
| Classmark | ENR: CT: RK: F:W: 3F: 7T |
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