The Older People’s External Residential Assessment Tool (OPERAT) enables the assessment of the residential environment based on what is important to older people as identified by older people themselves, providing a measure of ‘age-friendliness’. OPERAT scores are derived from 17 items distributed across four domains corresponding to Natural Elements, Incivilities and Nuisance; Navigation and Mobility; and Territorial Functioning. This presentation will show that an association between OPERAT scores and broader area level deprivation scores varies according to the nature of the geographic settlement type. We conclude that although deprivation levels for a large area predict ‘age-friendliness’ for smaller constituent areas, this association varies by rurality and population density. These results highlight the variance in ‘age-friendliness’ between different types of area, and the utility of OPERAT in identifying these differences. This information has potential application for planners, policy makers and practitioners, in correspondence to the WHO drive for age-friendly environments.
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