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Innov Aging
Innov Aging
innovateage
Innovation in Aging
2399-5300 Oxford University Press US 

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2473
igaa057.2473
Abstracts
Session 6185 (Symposium)
AcademicSubjects/SOC02600
Parks and Safety: How Cognitive Decline May Impact Access and Perception
Clarke Philippa  Esposito Michael  Jang Joy Bohyun  Tang Sandra  Khan Anam  Sylvers Dominique  Finlay Jessica  
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
2020 
16 12 2020 
16 12 2020 
4 Suppl 1 Program Abstracts from The GSA 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting “Turning 75: Why Age Matters”704 704
© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America.2020This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Abstract
Older adults’ perceptions of the presence and quality of neighborhood resources provide important information about the potential benefit of those resources but are not necessarily concordant with the actual physical resources available in that environment. There is debate about whether subjective perceptions of local context are more important for individual behavior and well-being than objective indicators of resources. However, little research has examined how cognitive function is related to differences in the perceived availability and quality of neighborhood resources among older adults. We found that subjective reports of neighborhood safety and adequacy of parks were positively associated with objective measures of property crime and park density. Cognitive function was associated with higher subjective neighborhood evaluations, but adults with lower cognitive function reported more discordance between objective and subjective measures of neighborhood resources. These findings inform how neighborhood resources may have different consequences for older adults experiencing cognitive decline.