Examining Older Adults' Perspectives on the Built Environment and Correlates of Healthy Aging in an American Age-Friendly Community.
Examining Older Adults' Perspectives on the Built Environment and Correlates of Healthy Aging in an American Age-Friendly Community.
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DOI：
10.3390/ijerph17197056
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发表时间：
2020-09-27
影响因子：
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通讯作者：
Jester DJ
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作者：
Black K;Jester DJ
人口老龄化导致人们越来越关注我们老龄化所处的环境背景。虽然研究人员已经确定了与建造社区功能(如住房、交通和户外空间和建筑)相关的显著健康益处，但较少关注通过社区居住的老年人的角度来研究健康老龄化和其他特征的相关性。这项研究利用聚类分析来检查位于美国的一个老年友好社区中与健康相关的老年人亚群(n=598)，其中近一半的居民年龄在60岁及以上。线性回归被用来将健康集群与对已建立的环境特征和社会人口统计学的感知联系起来。研究确定了四个不同的特征，在多维健康老龄化指标中，报告健康状况较差的人比报告健康状况良好的人更倾向于住房和交通。研究还发现，人们对建筑环境特征重要性的看法也因年龄、收入和家庭可访问性状况而有所不同。研究结果表明，老年人对建筑环境特征的看法因健康和家庭状况以及年龄和收入的不同而有所不同，这突显了公共卫生行动的机会，以通过年龄友好型社区的生命历程更好地接触和参与老年人。
Population aging has led to an increased focus on the environmental context in which we age. While researchers have identified significant health benefits associated with built community features such as housing, transportation and outdoor spaces and buildings, less attention has focused on the correlates of healthy aging and other characteristics via the perspective of community-dwelling older adults. This study utilized cluster analysis to examine health-related subgroups of older adults (n = 598) in an age-friendly community located in the United States, of which nearly half of its residents are age 60 and older. Linear regression was used to associate the health clusters with perceptions of built environmental features and socio-demographics. Four distinct profiles were identified, with the greatest preference for housing and transportation found among those reporting poorer health compared to those reporting excellent health across multi-dimensional healthy aging measures. Perceptions on the importance of built environmental features were also found to vary by age, income and home accessibility status. Findings suggest that older adults’ perceptions about built environmental features differ across health and home status as well as age and income, underscoring opportunities for public health action to better reach and engage older adults by life-course trajectories in age-friendly communities.
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