Developing indicators of age-friendly neighbourhood environments for urban and rural communities across 20 low-, middle-, and high-income countries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

By 2050, the global population of adults 60 + will reach 2.1 billion, surging fastest in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). In response, the World Health Organization (WHO) has developed indicators of age-friendly urban environments, but these criteria have been challenging to apply in rural areas and LMIC. This study fills this gap by adapting the WHO indicators to such settings and assessing variation in their availability by community-level urbanness and country-level income.

Methods

We used data from the Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study's environmental-assessment tools, which integrated systematic social observation and ecometrics to reliably capture community-level environmental features associated with cardiovascular-disease risk f

SUBMITTER: Rugel EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8759164 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature