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How does self-assessed health change with age?
— a study of older adults in Japan | | Author(s) | Jersey Liang, Benjamin A Shaw, Neal Krause |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 60B, no 4, July 2005 |
| Pages | pp S224-S232 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Longitudinal surveys ; Japan. |
| Annotation | The authors hypothesise that subjective health declines in old age, with such decline accelerating after age 75. They use data from a 5-wave panel study of a national sample of 2,200 Japanese older people (aged 60+) between 1987 and 1999, to examine how trajectories of self-rated health evolve, and how socioeconomic status, social relations, and baseline health differentiate these trajectories. Hierarchical linear models and cluster analysis were used to depict major patterns of temporal changes in self-rated health. Overall, perceived health becomes worse, but only slightly, between ages 60 and 85, whereas it appears to improve a little bit after age 85. Underlying the observed age norm are four sub-trajectories: constant good health; early onset of perceived health decline; late onset of perceived health decline; and a course of recovery from poor self-assessed health. Diverse subjective health trajectories exist to old age, well into the 90s. The authors' analysis of Japanese data provides important benchmarks for comparisons with observations made in other developed nations. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-051219207 A |
| Classmark | CC: 3J: 7DT |
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