Sensory Health Among Older Adults in the United States: A Neighborhood Context Approach

The Journals of Gerontology Series B, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 79(5)

Published: Jan. 24, 2024

Sensory health declines with age but remains critical to the navigation and enjoyment of everyday life. Neighborhoods are key sites environmental exposure, social engagement, access resources that can shape sensory health, yet residential neighborhood is understudied as a determinant function. We use data from Rounds 1 2 National Social Life, Health, Aging Project examine how subjective objective measures older adults' areas associated in series cross-sectional multilevel regression models. In models, higher levels perceived ties significantly better self-rated vision. Older adults who reside more densely populated tracts likely have worse olfactory identification, whereas residing concentrated disadvantage lower tract-level hearing propose characteristics could influence certain exposures, amount time spend out home, patterns preventative care collectively affect health. Residential neighborhoods may be important potential intervention slow age-related other related conditions.

Language: Английский

Vision Need Profiles for the City of Richmond, Virginia

Ophthalmology Science, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 4(2), P. 100429 - 100429

Published: Nov. 15, 2023

People with vision problems (VPs) have different needs based on their age, economic resources, housing type, neighborhood, and other disabilities. We used calibration methods to create synthetic data estimate census tract-level community need profiles (CNPs) for the city of Richmond, Virginia.

Language: Английский