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Unequal Places: The Impacts of Socioeconomic and Race/Ethnic Differences in Neighborhoods

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The social, economic, and physical environments in which older adults live play a vital role in healthy, active, and engaged lives. But older adults live in unequal environments. Low-income older adults and older racial-ethnic minorities are more likely to live in neighborhoods characterized by poverty, disorder, lack of social cohesion, and pollution. At all income levels there is a greater proportion of older racial-ethnic minorities in neighborhoods with economic, social, and physical problems. Neighborhood inequality may contribute to disparities in the aging experience.

Keywords: AIR POLLUTION; NEIGHBORHOOD DISORDER; NEIGHBORHOODS; OLDER ADULTS; POVERTY; RACE-ETHNICITY; SOCIAL COHESION

Document Type: Research Article

Publication date: June 1, 2018

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