The Gerontologist, Vol 35, Issue 4 541-548, Copyright © 1995 by The Gerontological Society of America

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The effects of poverty environments on elders' subjective well-being: a conceptual model

V Brown
Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, OH 44115, USA.

This article presents a conceptual model, the Urban Ecological Model of Aging, to be used by researchers to assess the impact of living in neighborhoods of concentrated and prolonged poverty on elderly residential satisfaction and subjective well-being. Specifically, the suprapersonal environment characteristics, or aggregated people characteristics, of impoverished urban neighborhoods are explicated and included in a predictive model of community-dwelling elders' affective state, i.e., positive and negative affect. Demographic and personal characteristics are also included in the model as predictors.

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