Older adults who live in poor and violent urban neighborhoods are at greater risk for depression, according to a new study.
The study, published in the journal Health & Place, showed that older adults who lived in neighborhoods with more homicide and a higher poverty rate experienced more depressive symptoms.
In fact, neighborhood homicide rates accounted for almost a third of the effect of neighborhood poverty on older adult depression, according to researchers from the University of California Davis, the University of Minnesota, Columbia University and the University of Sydney.
“Given the shift towards an aging population and the growing rates of depression among older adults, understanding the factors that contribute to depression is critical,” said Spruha Joshi, a doctoral student in epidemiology at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and first author on the paper.
[For more of this story, written by Janice Wood, go to https://psychcentral.com/news/...r-adults/116306.html]
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