Neighborhood Sidewalk Environment and Incidence of Dementia in Older Japanese Adults.

ABSTRACT: Sidewalks are indispensable environmental resources for daily life in that they encourage physical activity. However, the proportion of sidewalk coverage is low even in developed countries. We examined the association between neighborhood sidewalk environment and dementia in Japan. We conducted a 3-year follow-up (2010-2013) among participants in the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study, a population-based cohort study of community-dwelling older adults. We ascertained the incidence of dementia for 76,053 participants from the public long-term care insurance system. We calculated sidewalk coverage (sidewalk area as a percentage of road area) within 436 residential neighborhood units using geographic information systems. Multilevel survival models were used to estimate hazard ratios for th

SUBMITTER: Tani Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8245872 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature