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Ill, worried or worried sick?
— inter-relationships among indicators of wellbeing among older people in Sweden | | Author(s) | Björn Halleröd |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 29, part 4, May 2009 |
| Pages | pp 563-584 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Well being ; Quality of life ; Health [elderly] ; Indicators ; Correlation ; Sweden. |
| Annotation | This study examined the associations between a large set of health indicators and well-being among older people aged 60+ in Sweden. The data were drawn from the Swedish Panel Survey of Ageing and the Elderly (PSEA), with variables covering information about health, daily activities, social interaction, anxieties and worries, and economic hardship. A series of confirmative factor analyses were used to reveal if and how indicators of living conditions could be subdivided into latent factors, and several socio-economic and socio-demographic variables were used as their predictors. Differences between men and women and between a number of age groups of old people were systematically scrutinised. The preferred representation of the data was a nested model that identified one global factor, which related to all manifest indicators, and three residual factors that measured the specific experiences of physical impairment, psychological distress and economic difficulties. The findings improve our understanding of the relationships between indicators of health and well-being and the various latent dimensions that simultaneously affect response patterns. More importantly, they also facilitate our understanding of older people's well-being and assist the interpretation of single commonly used indicators such as subjective health. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090501003 A |
| Classmark | D:F:5HH: F:59: CC: 3RI: 49: 76P |
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