Local Ties in the Social Networks of Older Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Family members and friends who live nearby may be especially well-positioned to provide social support and companionship for community-residing older adults, but prior research has not examined the distribution and characteristics of local ties in older adults' networks. We hypothesize that local ties are newer, more frequently accessed, and more embedded in the network, and that social disadvantage and neighborhood conditions structure older adults' access to local ties.

Methods

We use egocentric network data from 15,137 alters named by 3,735 older adults in Wave 3 of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP). We conduct dyadic analysis to compare characteristics of local and nonlocal ties. Logistic regression models estimate how personal and ne

SUBMITTER: York Cornwell E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7955986 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature