Neighborhood perception and self‐rated health among Mexican American older adults

Stroope, Samuel; Cohen, Isaiah F.A.; Tom, Joshua C.; Franzen, Aaron B.; Valasik, Matthew; Markides, Kyriakos S.

doi:10.1111/ggi.13089

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“…Having ties to neighbors facilitates access to informal aid and reduces the sense of isolation, which can mitigate the problems of maintaining everyday life at a time of advancing age and declining health (Beard et al, 2009;Yen et al, 2009;Oswald et al, 2011;Kalwij et al, 2014;Boerner et al, 2016;Ward et al, 2018). Such challenges include accessing home care (e.g., Nocon and Pearson, 2000;Barker, 2002;Kalwij et al, 2014;Pleschberger and Wosko, 2017), managing depressive symptoms (e.g., Aneshensel et al, 2007;Wight et al, 2009;Wang et al, 2018), maintaining physical functioning (e.g., Balfour and Kaplan, 2002), and achieving other wellbeing outcomes (e.g., Wahl et al, 2009;Morita et al, 2010;Stroope et al, 2017;Gallardo-Peralta et al, 2018). Therefore, older adults' experiences and behaviors in terms of wellbeing, independence, and social integration are closely related to their environments: their neighborhoods (Wahl et al, 2012).…”

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Help From and Help to Neighbors Among Older Adults in Europe

Seifert

König

2019

Front. Sociol.

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Neighborhoods can be a valuable source of social support particularly for older adults. Such support can be mutual; however, the influential factors in giving and receiving are unclear. This study investigated neighborhood help among the older European population using representative data for 17 countries from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The analyses were based on 104,059 observations of 39,113 respondents aged 50 years and older. In general, ∼6% of all respondents provided recently neighborhood help, and 4% received help. Moreover, the results indicate a high degree of reciprocity in giving and receiving neighborhood help. However, the situation varied widely among age groups and countries. Our multilevel results suggest that the provision and receipt of help are driven by personal characteristics (age, sex, education, income, and retirement), health resources (subjective health, activities of daily living, and instrumental activities of daily living), living situation (homeownership, location, and length of time in a residence), social factors (marital status, partner, parents, and children), and contextual factors (gross domestic product, social expenditures, poverty rate, Gini index, population density, country-centered satisfaction with life, living, and relationships).

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Section: Neighborhood Help Among Older Adultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Help From and Help to Neighbors Among Older Adults in Europe

Seifert

König

2019

Front. Sociol.

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“…Concerning self-rated health, older adults are more likely to report poor health if living in more deprived neighbourhoods [ 82 , 151 , 152 , 153 , 154 , 155 , 156 ], or when they lived in an area with a lower education level [ 151 ].…”

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Neighbourhood Socioeconomic Processes and Dynamics and Healthy Ageing: A Scoping Review

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Paciência

Ribeiro

2022

IJERPH

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Elderly citizens are concentrated in urban areas and are particularly affected by the immediate residential environment. Cities are unequal and segregated places, where there is an intensification of urban change processes such as gentrification and displacement. We aimed to understand how neighbourhood socioeconomic processes and dynamics influence older people’s health. Three bibliographic databases—PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus—were used to identify evidence of the influence of neighbourhood socioeconomic deprivation, socio-spatial segregation, urban renewal, and gentrification on healthy ageing. We followed the method of Arksey and O’Malley, Levac and colleagues, the Joanna Briggs Institute, and the PRISMA-ScR. The included studies (n = 122) were published between 2001 and 2021. Most evaluated neighbourhood deprivation (n = 114), followed by gentrification (n = 5), segregation (n = 2), and urban renewal (n = 1). Overall, older people living in deprived neighbourhoods had worse healthy ageing outcomes than their counterparts living in more advantaged neighbourhoods. Older adults pointed out more negative comments than positive ones for gentrification and urban renewal. As to segregation, the direction of the association was not entirely clear. In conclusion, the literature has not extensively analysed the effects of segregation, gentrification, and urban renewal on healthy ageing, and more quantitative and longitudinal studies should be conducted to draw better inferences.

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“…However, Latino/as also exhibit lower overall mortality rates as compared to non-Hispanic Whites, a phenomenon known as the “immigrant epidemiological paradox” [ 34 ]. The potential for place-based factors to act as sources of both added stress and mitigating resilience among U.S.-based Latino/as is a topic that warrants further exploration [ 1 , 35 , 36 ].…”

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“…The extent to which individuals hold positive perceptions of their neighborhoods and communities may have important implications for their health and wellbeing [ 1 ]. Growing awareness of the importance of upstream influences has led to increased interest in “place effects”, or the impact of our social and physical environments on human health [ 2 ].…”

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“Es Muy Tranquilo Aquí”: Perceptions of Safety and Calm among Binationally Mobile Mexican Immigrants in a Rural Border Community

Crocker

Duenas

Vazquez³

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Perceptions of community can play an important role in determining health and well-being. We know little, however, about residents’ perceptions of community safety in the Southwestern borderlands, an area frequently portrayed as plagued by disorder. The qualitative aim of this community-based participatory research study was to explore the perceptions of Mexican-origin border residents about their communities in southern Yuma County, Arizona. Our team of University of Arizona researchers and staff from Campesinos Sin Fronteras, a grassroots farmworker support agency in Yuma County, Arizona, developed a bilingual interview guide and recruited participants through radio adds, flyers, and cold calls among existing agency clientele. Thirty individual interviews with participants of Mexican origin who live in and/or work in rural Yuma County were conducted remotely in 2021. Participants overwhelmingly perceived their communities as both calm and safe. While some participants mentioned safety concerns, the vast majority described high levels of personal security and credited both neighbors and police for ensuring local safety. These perceptions were stated in direct contrast to those across the border, where participants had positive familial and cultural ties but negative perceptions regarding widespread violence. In conclusion, we argue that to understand environmental factors affecting health and well-being in Mexican immigrant populations, it is critical to examine the role of binational external referents that color community perceptions.

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Neighborhood perception and self‐rated health among Mexican American older adults

Abstract: The findings suggest that positive neighborhood perception serves as an important protective factor in overall health. Geriatr Gerontol Int 2017; 17: 2559-2564.

Cited by 6 publications

References 21 publications

Help From and Help to Neighbors Among Older Adults in Europe

Help From and Help to Neighbors Among Older Adults in Europe

Neighbourhood Socioeconomic Processes and Dynamics and Healthy Ageing: A Scoping Review

“Es Muy Tranquilo Aquí”: Perceptions of Safety and Calm among Binationally Mobile Mexican Immigrants in a Rural Border Community

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