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Companionship in the neighborhood context
— older adults' living arrangements and perceptions of social cohesion | | Author(s) | Lea Bromell, Kathleen A Cagney |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 36, no 2, March 2014 |
| Publisher | Sage, March 2014 |
| Pages | pp 228-243 |
| Source | roa.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Living patterns ; Living alone ; Social interaction ; Neighbourhoods, communities etc ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This study investigated the impact of neighbourhood social cohesion on the perceived companionship of nearly 1,500 community-dwelling older adults from the Neighborhood, Organization, Aging and Health project (NOAH), a Chicago-based study of older adult well-being. The authors hypothesized that the relationship between neighbourhood-level social cohesion and individual residents' reports of companionship would be more pronounced among those who lived alone than those who resided with others. Controlling for age, gender, education, race, marital status, length of neighbourhood residence, and self-rated health, neighbourhood social cohesion predicted companionship among those who lived alone. For a one-unit increase in neighbourhood social cohesion, the odds of reporting companionship increased by half. In contrast, social cohesion did not predict the companionship of those who resided with others. The results suggest that older adults who live alone particularly profit from the benefits of socially cohesive neighbourhood environments. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150626285 A |
| Classmark | K7: K8: TMA: RH: 49: 7T |
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