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：社会科学家开始理清 引发老年人从独立生活环境进入 长期护理设施。以前的研究表明，与年龄有关的疾病 导致残疾的家庭增加了住房过渡的风险。但 社会支持在这一过程中的作用尚不清楚。 这项拟议中的研究调查了健康状况、社会关系、 老年人口的住房过渡， 1993年和1995年最年长者的资产和健康动态（AHEAD） study. 该项目的具体目标是： 1)检查社会支持调节关系的程度 健康与 住房过渡。 2)确定不同来源的支持对住房过渡的影响。 3)确定社会支持依赖水平与 住房过渡。 分析将评估如何依赖不同的社会支持来源， (i.e.,只有非正式的，只有正式的，以及非正式和正式的结合）是 与住房类型的变化相关（即，私人住宅，支持 养老院（养老院），为期两年。此外， 收到的援助（即，10项活动的援助摘要）， 考虑了

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.