Self-rated health in old age, related factors and survival : A 20-Year longitudinal study within the Silver-MONICA cohort

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INTRODUCTION: Self-rated health (SRH) offers insights into the evolving health demographics of an ageing population.

AIM: To assess change in SRH from old age to very old age and their associations with health and well-being factors, and to investigate the association between SRH and survival.

METHODS: All participants in the MONICA 1999 re-examination born before 1940 (n = 1595) were included in the Silver-MONICA baseline cohort. The Silver-MONICA follow-up started in 2016 included participants in the Silver-MONICA baseline cohort aged 80 years or older. Data on SRH was available for 1561 participants at baseline with 446 of them also participating in the follow-up. The follow-up examination included a wide variety of measurements and tests.

FINDINGS: Most participants rated their health as "Quite good" (54.5 %) at baseline. Over the study period, 42.6 % had stable SRH, 40.6 % had declined, and 16.8 % had improved. Changes in SRH were at follow-up significantly associated with age, pain, nutrition, cognition, walking aid use, self-paced gait speed, lower extremity strength, independence in activities of daily living, weekly physical exercise, outdoor activity, participation in organized activities, visiting others, morale, and depressive symptoms. SRH at baseline was significantly associated with survival (p < 0.05).

CONCLUSION: This study demonstrates associations between changes in SRH and a multitude of health- and wellbeing-related factors, as well as a relation between survival and SRH, accentuating their relevance within the ageing population.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:122

Enthalten in:

Archives of gerontology and geriatrics - 122(2024) vom: 29. Feb., Seite 105392

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Almevall, Ariel [VerfasserIn]
Almevall, Albin Dahlin [VerfasserIn]
Öhlin, Jerry [VerfasserIn]
Gustafson, Yngve [VerfasserIn]
Zingmark, Karin [VerfasserIn]
Niklasson, Johan [VerfasserIn]
Nordström, Peter [VerfasserIn]
Rosendahl, Erik [VerfasserIn]
Söderberg, Stefan [VerfasserIn]
Olofsson, Birgitta [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Aged 80 and over
Aging/psychology
Diagnostic self evaluation
Journal Article
Longitudinal studies
Population characteristics
Self-rated health
Survival analysis

Anmerkungen:

Date Revised 16.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status Publisher

doi:

10.1016/j.archger.2024.105392

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM369821742