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Do older adults expect to age successfully?
— the association between expectations regarding aging and beliefs regarding healthcare seeking among older adults | | Author(s) | Catherine A Sarkisian, Ron D Hays, Carol M Mangione |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 50, no 11, November 2002 |
| Pages | pp 1837-1843 |
| Keywords | Longevity ; Attitude ; Health [elderly] ; Health services ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The Expectations Regarding Aging Study (ERA-38) was used to question 429 randomly selected community-dwelling adults aged 65-100 in Greater Los Angeles regarding their ageing expectations and health care seeking beliefs. More than 50% of the participants felt it was an expected part of ageing to become depressed, to become more dependent, to have more aches and pains, to have less ability to have sex, and to have less energy. After adjusting for sociodemographic and health characteristics using multivariate regression, older age was independently associated with lower expectations regarding ageing, as was having lower physical and mental health-related quality of life. Having lower expectations regarding ageing was independently associated with placing less importance on seeking health care. Thus, most of the older people in this sample did not expect to achieve the model of successful ageing in which high cognitive and physical functioning is maintained. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-021216227 A |
| Classmark | BGA: DP: CC: L: 49: 7T |
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