Poulsen Tine, Christensen Ulla, Lund Rikke, Avlund Kirsten
Section of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1014 Copenhagen, Denmark.
Center for Healthy Aging, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Eur J Ageing. 2011 Oct 26;8(4):221-232. doi: 10.1007/s10433-011-0205-5. eCollection 2011 Dec.
Within the last 10 years, there has been a growing interest in the importance of social capital and older people. The aims of the study are to advance measurements of aspects of social capital based on bonding, bridging and linking that can be used to study the impact of the local community on community-dwelling older populations and to study the distribution of these three measurements of social capital in 34 municipalities. Data are from a Danish prospective cohort study on preventive home visits among 4,034 old people 75+ in 34 municipalities in Denmark. The measurements of aspects of social capital at community level are based on theory of bonding, bridging and linking social capital. It has been possible to analyse variations in the three measurements of social capital in the 34 municipalities and to characterize different municipalities according to high versus low social capital. There are interesting patterns in distribution of the three measurements. The two extreme groups of municipalities (high and low social capital) differ with regard to demography, social and structural conditions in the municipalities. We believe that the proposed measures of social capital will be relevant in future studies of social capital and health in older populations, since they are theoretically based and cover different aspects of social capital related to older people and their local community.
在过去十年中，人们对社会资本与老年人的重要性越来越感兴趣。本研究的目的是推进基于纽带、桥梁和联系的社会资本各方面的测量方法，这些方法可用于研究当地社区对居住在社区中的老年人群体的影响，并研究这三种社会资本测量方法在34个自治市中的分布情况。数据来自丹麦一项针对丹麦34个自治市中4034名75岁及以上老年人进行预防性家访的前瞻性队列研究。社区层面社会资本各方面的测量基于纽带、桥梁和联系社会资本理论。现已能够分析这34个自治市中社会资本的三种测量方法的差异，并根据社会资本的高低对不同的自治市进行特征描述。这三种测量方法的分布存在有趣的模式。社会资本处于两个极端水平（高和低）的自治市在人口统计学、社会和结构条件方面存在差异。我们认为，所提出的社会资本测量方法将在未来关于老年人群体社会资本与健康的研究中具有相关性，因为它们基于理论，涵盖了与老年人及其当地社区相关的社会资本的不同方面。
