This project examined whether and how exposure to green space, air pollution and area-level deprivation in childhood, adulthood and old age affects healthy ageing. The researchers used the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 data, including information collected from historical records about the neighbourhoods that the participants have lived in throughout their lives to examine these questions. This interdisciplinary project ran from September 2020 for 24 months and involved expertise from human geography, psychology, epidemiology and landscape architecture, included partners from policy and advocacy, and was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council’s Secondary Data Analysis Initiative (grant award ES/T003669/1). Watch this short animation summarising the key findings about healthy ageing an… Outputs:Baranyi, G., et al. (2024). Life-course neighbourhood deprivation and brain structure in older adults: The Lothian Birth Cohort 1936. Molecular Psychiatry. Bottom line: Life-course neighbourhood deprivation may be linked to adverse brain structure characteristics in older adults.Baranyi G., et al. (2023). Neighbourhood deprivation across eight decades and late-life cognitive function in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936: a life-course study. Age & Ageing. Bottom line: People living in more deprived neighborhoods in childhood and middle age are at greater risk of worse cognitive outcomes.Baranyi G., et al. (2022). Association of life-Course neighborhood deprivation with frailty and frailty progression from ages 70 to 82 years in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936. American Journal of Epidemiology. Bottom line: Living in deprived neighbourhoods across the life course contributes to frailty and frailty progression, but associations may differ between males and females.Baranyi G., et al. (2022). Life-course exposure to air pollution and biological ageing in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936. Environment International. Bottom line: Greater exposure to air pollution in earlier life may be associated with faster biological ageing, which likely persists across the entire life course. Principal investigator: Dr Jamie Pearce Co-investigators: Professor Niamh Shortt Funder: Economic and Social Research Council’s Secondary Data Analysis Initiative Funded period: September 2020 – September 2022Find out more about this and related research on Open Space: The research centre for inclusive access to outdoor environments. This article was published on 2024-11-13
