Health, Social Support, and Housing Transitions

描述(由申请人提供)：健康、社会支持和住房 转变：社会科学家正开始理清 触发老年人从独立的生活环境进入 长期护理设施。先前的研究表明与年龄有关的疾病 这会导致残疾，增加住房过渡的风险。然而， 社会支持在这一过程中的作用尚不清楚。 这项拟议的研究考察了健康状况、社会地位和社会地位之间的关系 用数据支持和支持老年人口中的住房过渡 来自1993和1995年最高龄老年人的资产和健康动态(领先) 学习。 该项目的具体目标是： 1)考察社会支持在多大程度上调节关系 在健康和 住房转型。 2)确定不同支持来源对住房过渡的影响。 3)确定社会支持依赖程度与 住房转型。 该分析将评估对不同社会支持来源的依赖程度 (即，仅非正式、仅正式以及非正式和正式的组合)是 与住房类型的变化有关(例如，私人住宅、支持性 住房、养老院)，为期两年。此外，强度， 收到的援助(即十项活动的援助摘要)将为 考虑过了。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Health, Social Support, and Housing Transitions: Social scientists are beginning to disentangle the factors that trigger the movement of older adults from independent living environments into long-term care facilities. Previous research indicates age-related diseases that lead to disability increase the risk of a housing transition. However, the role of social support in this process is unclear. The proposed research examines the relationship between health status, social support, and housing transitions among the older adult population with data from the 1993 and 1995 Asset and Health Dynamics among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) study. The specific aims of this project are to: 1) Examine the degree to which social support moderates the relationship between health and housing transitions. 2) Identify the effect of different sources of support on housing transitions. 3) Determine the relationship between the level of social support reliance and housing transitions. The analysis will assess how reliance upon different sources of social support (i.e., informal only, formal only, and a combination of informal and formal) is related to changes in housing type (i.e., private residence, supportive housing, nursing home) over a two-year period. In addition, intensity of assistance received (i.e., a summary of assistance with ten activities) will be considered.