| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
Does private religious activity prolong survival
— a six-year follow-up study of 3,851 older adults | | Author(s) | Hughes M Helm, Judith C Hays, Elizabeth P Flint |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, vol 55A, no 7, July 2000 |
| Pages | pp M400-M405 |
| Keywords | Spiritual characteristics [elderly] ; Religion ; Longevity ; Self care capacity ; Mobility ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Data from the Duke University Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (Duke/EPESE) in North Carolina was used to test the hypothesis that older people who participated in private religious activity would survive longer than those who did not. During a median 6.3 year follow-up period, 1,137 subjects (29.5%) died. Those reporting rarely or never participating in private religious activity had an increased relative hazard of dying over more frequent participants, but this hazard did not remain significant for the sample as a whole after adjustment for demographic and health variables. When divided into activity of daily living (ADL) impaired and unimpaired, the effects did not remain significant for the ADL impaired group. However, the increased hazard remained significant for the unimpaired ADL group. Thus, older people who participate in private religious activity before onset of ADL impairment appear to have a survival advantage over those who do not. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000825209 A |
| Classmark | EX: TR: BGA: CA: C4: 3J: 7T |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|