Neighborhood Disadvantage and Life-Space Mobility Are Associated with Incident Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine the relationship between neighborhood-level socioeconomic characteristics, life-space mobility, and incident falls in community-dwelling older adults.

Design

Prospective, observational cohort study with a baseline in-home assessment and 6-month telephone follow-up.

Setting

Central Alabama.

Participants

Community-dwelling adults aged 65 and older recruited from a random sample of Medicare beneficiaries (N = 1,000).

Measurements

Neighborhood disadvantage was measured using a composite index derived from baseline neighborhood-level residential census tract socioeconomic variables. Data on individual-level socioeconomic characteristics, clinical variables, and life-space collected at baseline were included as covariates in a multivari

SUBMITTER: Lo AX 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6986269 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature