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Health and ill-health in the older population in England and Wales
— the Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (MRC CFAS) | | Corporate Author | Medical Research Council - MRC |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 30, no 1, January 2001 |
| Pages | pp 53-62 |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Ill health ; Mental disorder ; Longitudinal surveys ; Cambridgeshire ; Gwynedd ; Newcastle upon Tyne ; Nottingham ; Oxford. |
| Annotation | The Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (MRC CFAS) is based on samples of over 65s from three urban (Newcastle, Nottingham and Oxford) and two rural (Cambridgeshire and Gwynedd) sites. This part of the Study examined the prevalence of physical, functional and cognitive co-morbidities and healthy life expectancies in each of these comorbid states. Ageing of the population is associated with marked increases in morbidity, with few over 64s reporting no physical disorder. Women have consistently greater morbidity than men. Life expectancy without any morbidity is short at all ages over 64, with the number of years expected with two or more areas affected virtually constant up to 90 years. As a proportion of remaining life expectancy, the period of time spent with two or more areas affected rises by the age of 90 to 30% in men and 60% in women. Preventive programmes for older people should take into account the large differences between the young old, the middle old, and the old old. The study provides a baseline against which to compare future changes in health in older populations. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010418220 A |
| Classmark | CC: CH: E: 3J: 8C: 98: 86A: 8NTF: 8OC |
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