title: Mobility, disability, and social engagement in older adults.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine cross sectional associations between mobility with or without disability and social engagement in a community-based sample of older adults.
  
  
  METHODS
  Social engagement of participants (n = 676) was outside the home (participation in organizations and use of senior centers) and in home (talking by phone and use of Internet). Logistic or proportional odds models evaluated the association between social engagement and position in the disablement process (no mobility limitations, mobility limitations/no disability, and mobility limitations/disability).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Low mobility was associated with lower level of social engagement of all forms (Odds ratio (OR) = 0.59, confidence intervals (CI): 0.41-0.85 for organizations; OR = 0.67, CI: 0.42-1.06 for senior center; OR = 0.47, CI: 0.32-0.70 for phone; OR = 0.38, CI: 0.23-0.65 for Internet). For social engagement outside the home, odds of engagement were further reduced for individuals with disability.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Low mobility is associated with low social engagement even in the absence of disability; associations with disability differed by type of social engagement.
authors.affiliation: Center for Aging and Population Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. alr143@pitt.edu
authors.forename: Andrea L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Rosso
authors.forename: Jennifer A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.forename: Loni Philip
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Tabb
authors.forename: Yvonne L
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Michael
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D051346:Mobility Limitation; D015143:Philadelphia; D058992:Social Participation
keywords: disability; life-space; mobility; social engagement
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