ArticleFrontiers in sociology2019
Help From and Help to Neighbors Among Older Adults in Europe.
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- The Differential Impact of Retirement on Contact Frequency With Family, Friends, Neighbors, and Coworkers.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Article
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- Developing, implementing, and evaluating the visiting Neighbors' program in rural Appalachia: A quality improvement protocol.PloS one · 2024Article
- Helping behaviours of community members towards older adults and the related factors: a cross-sectional study.Psychogeriatrics : the official journal of the Japanese Psychogeriatric Society · 2024Article
- Localized social capital in action: How neighborhood relations buffered the negative impact of COVID-19 on subjective well-being and trust.SSM - population health · 2023Article
- The influencing factors of participation in time banking volunteer service for older adults among university students in Nanjing, China.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Health Emergencies, Falls, and Use of Communication Technologies by Older People with Functional and Social Frailty: Ageing in Place in Deprived Areas of Italy.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Support towards the end of life and beyond: Non-kin care commitment for older people living alone in Austria.Health & social care in the community · 2022Article
- Factors influencing the mutual-support willingness and needs among the rural elderly in Hunan Province, China: a cross-sectional study.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- Social environment support to overcome loneliness among older adults: A scoping review.Belitung nursing journal · 2022Article
- Navigating Infodemics, Unlocking Social Capital and Maintaining Food Security during the COVID-19 First Wave in the UK: Older Adults' Experiences.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Day-to-Day Contact and Help Among Neighbors Measured in the Natural Environment.Innovation in aging · 2020Article
- Perceived neighborhood disorder, social cohesion, and depressive symptoms in spousal caregivers.Aging & mental healthArticle
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Abstract
Neighborhoods can be a valuable source of social support particularly for older adults. Such support can be mutual; however, the influential factors in giving and receiving are unclear. This study investigated neighborhood help among the older European population using representative data for 17 countries from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The analyses were based on 104,059 observations of 39,113 respondents aged 50 years and older. In general, ~6% of all respondents provided recently neighborhood help, and 4% received help. Moreover, the results indicate a high degree of reciprocity in giving and receiving neighborhood help. However, the situation varied widely among age groups and countries. Our multilevel results suggest that the provision and receipt of help are driven by personal characteristics (age, sex, education, income, and retirement), health resources (subjective health, activities of daily living, and instrumental activities of daily living), living situation (homeownership, location, and length of time in a residence), social factors (marital status, partner, parents, and children), and contextual factors (gross domestic product, social expenditures, poverty rate, Gini index, population density, country-centered satisfaction with life, living, and relationships).
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