Social Health in the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

In this article, we present the theoretical framework that guided the development of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) including the measures of social health. We discuss the literature that links social measures to other outcomes, and we discuss in detail how researchers might construct common measures of social health, including those that reflect social relationships, sexuality, social networks, social resources, and social participation.

Methods

The NSHAP includes multiple detailed measures of social health, collected in the rounds of data collection carried out in 2005, 2010, and 2015, allowing for study of changes over time and as people age among a nationally representative sample of the community-dwelling population of older adult

SUBMITTER: Waite LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8678439 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature