Residential Differences and Depression Among Older Adults With Dual Sensory Loss.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Investigating rural-urban and regional differences in the association between dual sensory loss (concurrent hearing and vision loss) and depression may highlight gaps in sensory loss research and health care services, and by socioeconomic status. Whether urbanicity and region may modify associations between sensory loss and depression is unknown.

Objective

To describe the rural-urban and regional differences in the association of dual sensory loss with depression among older adults.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study used data from wave 1 (April 2017-December 2019) of the population-based Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI). Participants were recruited from 35 states and union territories in India. LASI incorporated a multista

SUBMITTER: Wang EB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11907313 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature