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Healthy aging among inner-city men
— third place winner, 2001 IPA research awards in psychogeriatrics | | Author(s) | George E Vaillant, Robin J Western |
| Journal title | International Psychogeriatrics, vol 13, no 4, 2001 |
| Pages | pp 425-438 |
| Keywords | Longevity ; Health [elderly] ; Alcoholism ; Urban areas ; Cross sectional surveys ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This study has followed a cohort of 332 inner city Americans for 60 years or until death, from adolescent boyhood. Complete physical examinations were carried out every 5 years, with psychosocial data obtained every 2 years. Predictor variables assessed before age 50 include 6 variables reflecting uncontrollable factors: parental social class, environmental strengths, number of family problems, major depression, ancestral longevity, and premorbid physical health at age 50. A further 6 variables reflect (at least) some personal control: alcohol abuse, smoking, marital stability, body mass index (BMI), coping mechanisms, and education. Multivariate analysis suggests that positive ageing at 70 could be predicted by variables assessed prior to age 50. More hopeful still, if the six variables under some personal control were controlled, depression was the only uncontrollable variable that affected the quality of subjective and objective ageing. The authors find that for this group, psychiatric rather than sociological predictors appeared more important. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020524204 A |
| Classmark | BGA: CC: ETA: RK: 3KB: 3J: 7T |
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