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Socio-economic inequalities in physical functioning
— a comparative study of English and Greek elderly men | | Author(s) | Faiza Tabassum, Georgia Verropoulou, Cleon Tsimbos |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 29, part 7, October 2009 |
| Pages | pp 1123-1140 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Older men ; Economic status [elderly] ; Poor elderly ; Self care capacity ; Physical disabilities ; Comparison ; England ; Greece. |
| Annotation | The associations between socio-economic position (SEP) and physical functioning have frequently been investigated, but little is known about which measures of SEP are the best to use for older people. This study used data derived from Wave 1 of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) and the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) study to examine how different SEP indicators relate to the physical functioning of men aged 50+ in England and Greece. Self-reported physical functioning limitations and mobility difficulties were combined and categorised into "no disability", "mild disability" and "severe disability". The SEP indicators studied were wealth, educational level and occupational class. The findings indicate that respondents with less wealth, fewer educational qualifications and lower occupational class were more likely to experience mild or severe physical disability than those of high SEP. When all three measures of SEP were adjusted for each other, in both samples wealth maintained a strong association with mild and severe disability, while education was associated with severe disability, but only among English men. Occupational class was not strongly associated with physical disability in either case. Hence, among English and Greek older men, wealth was a more important predictor of physical functioning difficulties than either occupational class or education. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-09101207 A |
| Classmark | BC: F:W: F:W6: CA: BN: 48: 82: 76X |
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