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Housing type, location of residence and health status in Australian baby boomers
— results from the Australian Baby Boomer (ABBA) Study | | Author(s) | Deborah Ann Black, Leigh Ann Wilson, Kate O'Loughlin |
| Journal title | Australasian Journal on Ageing, vol 34, no 1, March 2015 |
| Publisher | Wiley, March 2015 |
| Pages | pp 43-46 |
| Source | wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/ajag |
| Keywords | 50-59 age group ; 60-64 age group ; Health [elderly] ; Housing [elderly] ; Employment of older people ; Retirement ; Australia. |
| Annotation | Baby Boomers are working and living longer than their pre-war counterparts, and are more likely to live in high density urban housing. This paper aimed to examine the relationship between housing type, working status and location of residence on health status in Baby Boomers. The study investigated location of residence and housing type in 1009 participants of the Ageing Baby Boomers in Australia (ABBA) Study to identify any predictors of, or correlations between, these variables and health status. The participants, born between 1944 and 1959, were aged between 50 and 64 years. Study findings revealed that current workers were less likely to report depression than retirees. There was a significantly higher rate of diabetes, obesity and hypertension in retirees than in current workers, although rates of obesity, diabetes and hypertension were higher than predicted in current workers. These rates of chronic disease are higher than previous estimates and provide evidence to inform health promotion programmes designed to increase physical activity and improve eating habits in baby boomers. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150626262 A |
| Classmark | BBB: BBC: CC: KE: GC: G3: 7YA |
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