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Which model of successful ageing should be used? — baseline findings from a British longitudinal survey of ageing
Author(s)	Ann Bowling, Steve Iliffe
Journal title	Age and Ageing, vol 35, no 6, November 2006
Pages	pp 607-613
Source	http://www.ageing.oxfordjournals.org
Keywords	Ageing process ; Well being ; Quality of life ; Self care capacity ; Health [elderly] ; Longitudinal surveys.
Annotation	There is increasing interest in how to age 'successfully' and in reaching consensus over its definition. Five models of successful ageing were tested on a British cross-sectional population survey of 999 people aged 65+ in 2000-01. The models were biomedical, broader biomedical, social, psychological and lay based. The more multidimensional lay model emerged as strongest. Respondents who were classified as successfully aged with this model, compared with those not successfully aged, had over five times the odds of rating their quality of life (QoL) as good rather than not good. Thus, a multidimensional, lay-based model should be used to evaluate the outcomes of health promotion in older populations. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-061211225 A
Classmark	BG: D:F:5HH: F:59: CA: CC: 3J
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