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Abstract Content (not more than 300 word, should include: Introduction, Objective, Methodology, critical findings & Conclusion):
Introduction: Promoting older adults' well-being requires strengthening individual resources and community-level environments that enable healthy ageing. Common infrastructure related to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), community amenities, and local health infrastructure form components of a community’s capacity to support social participation. The presence of functional health infrastructure can enhance community health security and lower structural barriers to participation. However, the combined role of WASH and health infrastructure in shaping community-level social participation among midlife and older populations remains underexplored in the Indian context.
Objective: To examine how the availability of infrastructures (common and health) at the community level influences collective social engagement among individuals aged 45 years and above.
Methodology: The study employs a community-level cross-sectional design to investigate the relationships between rural infrastructure and social activity among middle-aged and older adults. The outcome variable was the mean community-level social activity score, while the main explanatory variables were indices for common infrastructure and health infrastructure. Using dominant caste within a community as a stratifier, we could undertake analysis using Ordinary Least Squares Regression.
Findings: Among the Other Backward Class (OBC)-dominated community, both common infrastructure (β = 0.038, p = 0.055) and health infrastructure (β = 0.044, p < 0.001) were positively related to social activity. Among Scheduled Tribe (ST)-dominated communities, common infrastructure had a strong positive association (β = 0.182, p < 0.001).
Conclusion: Social activities within communities are facilitated by the presence of common infrastructure in SC and ST communities, but not within others and OBC communities, where the availability of health infrastructure facilitates social activities within communities.
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