Neighborhood Disorder and Physical Activity among Older Adults: A Longitudinal Study.

ABSTRACT: Neighborhood physical disorder-the visual indications of neighborhood deterioration-may inhibit outdoor physical activity, particularly among older adults. However, few previous studies of the association between neighborhood disorder and physical activity have focused on this sensitive population group, and most have been cross-sectional. We examined the relationship between neighborhood physical disorder and physical activity, measured using the Physical Activity Scale for the Elderly (PASE), in a three-wave longitudinal study of 3497 New York City residents aged 65-75 at baseline weighted to be representative of the older adult population of New York City. We used longitudinal mixed linear regression controlling for a number of individual and neighborhood factors to estimate the associa

SUBMITTER: Mooney SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5359178 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature