Krause N. Neighborhood deterioration and self-rated health in later life. Psychology and Aging. 1996;11:342-352.
The investigators in this study hypothesized that older adults who live in deteriorated neighborhoods will report more physical health problems than will elderly people who live in better physical environments. They performed a multivariate analysis, controlling for age, sex, education, and self-reported chronic financial strain, that showed a relationship between neighborhood deterioration (such as building condition, noise, and air quality as judged by a rater) and self-reported health. They also found what appeared to be a threshold for the relationship between neighborhood deterioration and self-reported health. People who lived in an area with greater neighborhood deterioration had higher levels of friendship strain but not marital strain or strain with other relatives-a finding that supports the hypothesis that neighborhood deterioration might be associated with older residents' fear of moving about their neighborhood.
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