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Health expectancy: first workshop of the International Healthy Life Expectancy Network (REVES)
- Editors:
- ROBINE Jean-Marie, BLANCHET Madeleine, DOWD John
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 188p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at various studies devoted to disability-free life expectancy. Part 1 contains papers on: expectation of life without disability measured from OPCS disability surveys; summary of results of calculation of life expectancy free of disability in the Netherlands 1981-85; Health expectancy in Quebec 1987; recent values of disability-free life expectancy in the United States; health expectancy in Canada; data from Switzerland. Part 2 contains papers on the different types of disability-free life expectancy and the methods of calculation. Part 3 examines the interpretation of these calculations and part 4 at the uses of disability-free life expectancy.
Life after ninety
- Authors:
- BURY MIchael, HOLME Anthea
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 212p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
A research study of a selected sample of very old people. Aimed at policy makers, geriatricians, doctors, nurses and other care staff. Looks at longevity and possible influences on it, health and disability, quality of life, everyday life, dependency levels, and support and care.
The association between loneliness and health – a survey-based study among middle-aged and older adults in Denmark
- Authors:
- JESSEN Mathilde Amalie Buchwald, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Aging and Mental Health, 22(10), 2018, pp.1338-1343.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Background: While the association between overall poor health and loneliness among older adults continues to be examined closely, less attention has been given to middle-aged adults. This paper examines the relationship between loneliness and health as measured by self-rated health, physical ability and multi-morbidity in a large sample of Danish adults between the ages of 52–92 years. Furthermore, it identifies vulnerable groups with regard to the year of birth and gender. Method: We apply the survey-study method, using data collected by The Danish National Centre for Social Research in 2012. The authors analysed the association between loneliness and health in 9154 Danish adults through multi-variate regression analyses adjusting for the year of birth, gender, marital status, cohabitation status, employment status and home ownership. Results: They found that loneliness was associated with increased risks of poor self-rated health (OR, 2.58; 95% Cl, 1.20–3.35), limited physical abilities (OR, 1.91; 95% Cl, 1.58–2.32) and multiple diagnoses (OR, 1.77; 95% Cl, 1.48–2.12). Lonely middle-aged adults (52–62 years of age) had an increased risk of having limited physical abilities. Conclusion: Among middle-aged and older Danish adults, loneliness was strongly associated with poor self-rated health, limited physical ability and multi-morbidity. (Edited publisher abstract)
Examination of the association of age, disability, and mood among Jewish older adults in Israel
- Author:
- LITWIN H.
- Journal article citation:
- Aging and Mental Health, 6(4), November 2002, pp.397-401.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The purpose of this article is to examine the association between chronological age, disability and mental health in later life. Secondary analysis of data from a national probability sample of Jewish persons age 60 and over in Israel was employed. Mental health, measured on a 12-item mood scale, was successively regressed on age, sociodemographic characteristics, functional disability and physical health status, and on the interaction of age and disability. A significant negative association between age and mood emerged when confounding variables were not controlled. This association remained, to a lesser degree, after sociodemographic variables were entered. The addition of disability and health variables reversed the direction of the association. Finally, the entry of the interaction term (age x disability) bolstered the net association of age and mood.
Trends in old age morbidity and disability in Britain
- Author:
- JARVIS Claire
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 19(5), September 1999, pp.603-627.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Discusses trends in morbidity and disability in Britain based on an analysis of national data in Britain, covering a 15 year period.
Outcome of anxiety and depression at two and a half years after baseline interview: associations with changes in psychiatric morbidity among three samples of elderly people living at home
- Authors:
- BOWLING Ann, FARQUHAR Morag, GRUDY Emily
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 11(2), February 1996, pp.119-129.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Examines psychiatric morbidity, using the General Health Questionnaire, which detects mainly anxiety and depression. The results of the follow-up data show that the most significant predictor of changes in psychiatric morbidity at follow-up was baseline psychiatric status, followed by health status. The strength of the study is its longitudinal design and verification of the results in three samples of elderly people, including one very elderly group. The lack of consistent associations with recovery from psychiatric morbidity (eg depression) in the literature enhances the importance of studies which aim to identify factors associated with different outcomes.
Cognitive disability and direct care costs for elderly people
- Authors:
- KAVANAGH Shane, KNAPP Martin
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 174(6), June 1999, pp.539-546.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Population ageing and the high costs of care support for elderly people have concentrated attention on economic issues. Examines whether there is an association between costs and cognitive disability by comparing service utilisation and direct costs for elderly people with different degrees of cognitive disability, and between people living in households and in communal establishments. Discusses how population ageing is closely associated with higher utilisation of health and social care services, and how new treatment or service arrangements provoke debate about their cost implications. The study aims to provide 'benchmark' information to inform debates about the potential costs of various treatment and service charges.
Health and function in the third age: papers prepared for the Carnegie Inquiry into the Third Age
- Authors:
- EVANS J. Grimley, et al
- Publisher:
- Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 206p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains papers on: human ageing and the differences between young and old; active life expectancy and disability; Ischaemic heart disease; chronic bronchitis; osteoarthritis; osteoporosis; stroke; cancers; depression; dementia; incontinence; risk factors; physical fitness; visual and hearing abilities; and psychological function and ageing.