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Active and cognitive impairment free life expectancies
— results from the Melton Mowbray 75+ health checks | | Author(s) | Catherine Sauvaget, Carol Jagger, Anthony J Arthur |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 30, no 6, November 2001 |
| Pages | pp 509-516 |
| Keywords | Mobility ; Mental health [elderly] ; Over 70s ; Screening ; Life expectancy tables ; Longitudinal surveys ; Melton Mowbray. |
| Annotation | The authors present health expectancies based on 1,557 people aged 75+ registered with one large general practice in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. The aim is to report estimates of active and cognitive impairment-free life expectancies among older people, and to update previous estimates from this population made using data from a survey in 1981 and follow-up in 1995. Active life expectancy at age 75 was 8.4 years for men and 9.9 years for women. The proportion of active life decreased dramatically with age for both sexes: after the age of 87, almost all of remaining life was spent with some activity restriction. In comparison, the proportion of life free from cognitive impairment decreased slowly in men and remained relatively constant in women at around 90%. The extra years lived by women over men appear to be spent with some form of activity restriction, although not all with cognitive impairment. Monitoring these trends over time will be important to ascertain whether we are exchanging longer life for poorer health. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020121212 A |
| Classmark | C4: D: BBK: 3V: S7: 3J: 8LEC |
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