Changes in neighborhood disadvantage over the course of 22 years among community-living older persons.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Among older persons, neighborhood disadvantage is a granular and increasingly used social determinant of health and functional well-being. The frequency of transitions into or out of a disadvantaged neighborhood over time is not known. These transitions may occur when a person moves from one location to another or when the Neighborhood Atlas, the data source for the area deprivation index (ADI) that is used to identify disadvantaged neighborhoods at the census-block level, is updated.

Methods

From a prospective longitudinal study of community-living persons, aged 70 years or older in South Central Connecticut, neighborhood disadvantage was ascertained every 18 months for 22 years (from March 1998 to March 2020). ADI scores higher than the 80th state percentile wer

SUBMITTER: Gill TM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11735297 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature