Neighborhood Amenities and Mobility in Older Adults
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Original Contribution Neighborhood Amenities and Mobility in Older Adults
Diversity of neighborhood amenities may promote the mobility of older adults. A 2010 community-based sample of 510 adults aged ≥65 years in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and geospatial data from the Esri Business Analyst database (Esri, Inc., Redlands, California) were used to assess associations of neighborhood amenity diversity with mobility. Neighborhoods were defined by census tract, and dive...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1476-6256,0002-9262
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwt032