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Gender differences in functional status in middle and older age
— are there any age variations? | | Author(s) | Jersey Liang, Joan M Bennett, Benjamin A Shaw |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 63B, no 5, September 2008 |
| Pages | pp S282-292 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Older men ; Older women ; Cognitive processes ; Self care capacity ; Middle aged ; Age groups [elderly] ; Comparison ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), involving up to six repeated observations of a national sample of Americans aged 50+ between 1993 and 2006 were used to examine gender differences in functional status and how these vary across different age group. The authors used hierarchical linear models with time-varying covariates in depicting temporal variations in functional status between men and women. As a quadratic function, the worsening of functional status was more accelerated in terms of intercept and rate of change among women and those in older age groups. In addition, gender differences in the level of functional impairment were more substantial in older people than in younger individuals, although differences in the rate of change between men and women remained constant across age groups. A life course perspectives can lead to new insights regarding gender variations in health within the context of interpersonal and intrapersonal differences. Similar gender differences in the level of functional impairment in the younger groups may reflect improvement of women's socioeconomic status, greater rate of increase in chronic diseases among men, and less debilitating effects of diseases. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-081009215 A |
| Classmark | BC: BD: DA: CA: SE: BB: 48: 3J: 7T |
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