title: Transportation Difficulty of Black and White Rural Older Adults.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to understand self-reported transportation difficulty among rural older adults. We used data from the UAB Study of Aging (255 Black and 259 White), community-dwelling participants residing in rural areas. We examined the relationship of predisposing characteristics, enabling resources, and measures of need for care with self-reports of transportation difficulty. Blacks reported having more transportation difficulty than Whites (24.7% vs. 11.6%; p ≤ .05). When we introduced other variables, race differences disappeared, but there was a race by income interaction with transportation difficulty. Whites with lower incomes were more likely to have transportation difficulty than Whites with higher incomes. When data from Blacks and Whites were analyzed separately, income was the only variable associated with transportation difficulty among Whites. Among Blacks, income was not related to transportation difficulty but several variables other than income (age, gender, marital status, MMSE scores and depression) were.
authors: School of Social Work, The University of Alabama.
authors: Nan Sook
authors: NS
authors: Park
authors: Lucinda L
authors: LL
authors: Roff
authors: Fei
authors: F
authors: Sun
authors: Michael W
authors: MW
authors: Parker
authors: David L
authors: DL
authors: Klemmack
authors: Patricia
authors: P
authors: Sawyer
authors: Richard M
authors: RM
authors: Allman