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Does the relationship between neighborhood socioeconomic status and health outcomes persist into very old age?
— a population-based study | | Author(s) | Verena H Menec, Shahin Shooshtari, Scott Nowicki |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging and Health, vol 22, no 1, February 2010 |
| Pages | pp 27-47 |
| Source | http://jah.sagepub.com/ DOI: 10.1177/0898264309349029 |
| Keywords | Neighbourhoods, communities etc ; Economic status [elderly] ; Ill health ; Correlation ; Canada. |
| Annotation | The purpose of this article is (a) to extend previous research on the relationship between neighbourhood socioeconomic status (SES) and health by considering a wide range of health-related measures derived from administrative health care records; and (b) to explore whether this relationship persists into old age. The study involved a complete cohort of community-dwelling residents in Winnipeg, Canada, who were 65 years or older in 2004/2005 (N = 77,930). Health measures were derived from administrative claims data. Census data were used to derive neighbourhood-level SES. Multilevel logistic regressions indicated that, relative to individuals living in the most affluent areas, those in the poorest areas had significantly higher odds of having arthritis, diabetes, hypertension, congestive heart failure, ischaemic heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, depression, and stroke. Significant neighbourhood income effects tended to be evident among individuals age 65 to 75 as well as those age 75+. A wide range of health conditions among older adults are disproportionately clustered into the poorest areas. Programmes and services should be designed to meet the needs of older adults of any age in such neighbourhoods. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100414501 A |
| Classmark | RH: F:W: CH: 49: 7S |
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