Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Individual, Household, and Neighborhood-Level Factors Affecting the Health and Well-Being of Older Adults

博士论文研究：影响老年人健康和福祉的个人、家庭和社区层面因素的混合方法分析

• 批准号: 1558577
• 负责人: Susan Craddock
• 金额: $ 1.6万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-03-15 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1558577&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Mixed; Methods

This doctoral dissertation research project will investigate how housing and neighborhood designs affect the health and well-being of elder residents in U.S. metropolitan areas. The project will focus on aging and the built environment at the individual, household, and neighborhood level to address unique issues occurring in different types of urban communities. The project will provide new insights regarding how the built environment can be developed in specific ways that are more consistent with the needs of elders. Project findings will contribute to the spatial social sciences by expanding basic knowledge about the health and well-being of elder residents in relation to their home and neighborhood environments. The project will have practical implications by promoting more inclusive and sustainable urban planning and design that better meet the unique needs of diverse aging populations, with special emphasis on the experiences and needs of low-income, minority, and disabled older adults. The project will provide basic research exposure and experience to a diverse range of individuals, with special efforts made to provide research opportunities for students from underrepresented groups to participate in fieldwork and data analysis. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this award also will provide support to enable a promising student to establish a strong independent research career.The project will aim to understand urban landscape challenges to "aging in place," an increasingly common phenomenon where elder residents stay in their longtime homes and communities instead of moving to institutional settings, such as assisted living facilities. The doctoral student will identify personal, household, and neighborhood level factors that affect elder residents' well-being and ability to "age in place" in a safe and supportive environment. The student will bridges theories and methods from geography and public health through a mixed-methods study in three distinct regions of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. The first phase of research will involve sit-down and mobile interviews with 125 community-dwelling elder residents as well as environmental audits and spatial analyses of participants' homes and neighborhoods. The second phase will involve semi-longitudinal ethnographic sessions with a subset of participants. Interviews with civic staff and policy analysis in the third phase will focus on local planning and policy efforts. This multi-level investigation will produce new insights into the complex connections between elders and urban environments, and project results will inform urban planning and community design that tries to accommodate the distinctive needs of elder citizens in American society.

该博士学位论文研究项目将调查住房和邻里设计如何影响美国大都市地区老年居民的健康和福祉。 该项目将集中于个人，家庭和社区层面的衰老和建筑环境，以解决在不同类型的城市社区中发生的独特问题。 该项目将提供有关如何以更与长者需求更一致的特定方式开发建筑环境的新见解。 项目发现将通过扩大有关老年居民与他们的家庭和邻里环境的健康和福祉的基本知识，从而为空间社会科学做出贡献。 该项目将通过促进更具包容性和可持续性的城市规划和设计来具有实际影响，从而更好地满足各种老龄化人群的独特需求，并特别强调了低收入，少数群体和残疾老年人的经验和需求。 该项目将为各种个人提供基础研究的曝光和经验，并为来自代表性不足的小组的学生提供研究机会，以参与现场工作和数据分析。 作为博士学位论文研究改进奖，该奖项还将提供支持，以使有前途的学生能够建立强大的独立研究职业。该项目将旨在了解“衰老”的城市景观挑战，这是一种日益普遍的现象，老年人居民在长期的房屋和社区中而不是搬到诸如机构设置之类的机构中，例如辅助生活设施。 博士生将确定在安全和支持性的环境中影响老年居民的福祉和“适当年龄”的能力的个人，家庭和邻里水平的因素。 该学生将通过在明尼阿波利斯-ST的三个不同地区进行的混合方法研究来弥合地理和公共卫生的理论和方法。保罗大都会地区。 研究的第一阶段将涉及对125名社区居民居民的静坐和移动访谈，以及对参与者的房屋和社区的环境审计和空间分析。 第二阶段将涉及与参与者子集的半个性人种学会议。 在第三阶段对公民人员和政策分析的访谈将重点放在地方计划和政策工作上。 这项多层次调查将为长者与城市环境之间的复杂联系提供新的见解，项目结果将为城市规划和社区设计提供依据，以适应美国社会中老年公民的独特需求。