Overview
In their new paper ‘Residential Segregation, Perceived Neighborhood Environment, and All-Cause Mortality Among Community-Dwelling Older Chinese Americans’, Yanping Jiang, PhD, Yuyang Zhu, MA, Fengyan Tang, PhD, Tammy Chung, PhD, and Bei Wu, PhD examine the effects of residential neighborhood cohesion and segregation on mortality among Chinese American older adults. Although it is well documented that neighborhoods play a key role in health outcomes for older adults, there has been limited research on Chinese American older adults, and this study sought to close that gap.
Key Insights
· For older Chinese Americans, perceived neighborhood cohesion was significantly associated with reduced risk of all-cause mortality.
· For older Chinese Americans, residential segregation was not directly related to all-cause mortality, nor indirectly through perceived neighborhood environment.