TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Social capital, health, and elderly driver status
JO  - Yale journal of biology and medicine
A1  - Isbel, Stephen T.
A1  - Berry, Helen L.
SP  - 87
EP  - 90
VL  - 89
IS  - 1
N2  - Driving a car enables many people to engage in meaningful activities that, in turn, help develop and maintain personal social capital. Social capital, a combination of community participation and social cohesion, is important in maintaining well-being. This paper argues that social capital can provide a framework for investigating the general role of transportation and driving a car specifically to access activities that contribute to connectedness and well-being among older people. This paper proposes theoretically plausible and empirically testable hypotheses about the relationship between driver status, social capital, and well-being. A longitudinal study may provide a new way of understanding, and thus of addressing, the well-being challenges that occur when older people experience restrictions to, or loss of, their driver's license.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0044-0086
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -