Associations and correlates of general versus specific successful ageing components

Thoma, Myriam V.; Kleineidam, Luca; Forstmeier, Simon; Maercker, Andreas; Weyerer, Siegfried; Eisele, Marion; Bussche, Hendrik van den; König, Hans‐Helmut; Röhr, Susanne; Stein, Janine; Wiese, Birgitt; Pentzek, Michael; Bickel, Horst; Maier, Wolfgang; Scherer, Martin; Riedel‐Heller, Steffi G.; Wagner, Michael

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“…The found gender differences are consistent with research showing lower functional health among older women than among men in South Africa [31]. In addition, younger age was associated with HA in this study, which concurs with previous findings [8,11,12]. The negative association between age and HA is expected due to biological, functional and cognitive decline with age [7].…”

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confidence: 92%

“…The proportion of older adults with no cognitive impairment and social engagement were higher in this study than in the China (≥60 years) study [10], which may be attributed to different modes of measurement and the South African sample being younger than the China sample. Analysing the different components of HA by age groups, we found that the decline with age was significant for all HA components, which largely concurs with previous research [12].…”

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confidence: 91%

“…We found that the younger age, male sex, population group (whites, coloureds), not daily tobacco users, not overweight and overweight were associated with MMHA and/or BMBA. Consistent with previous research [8,11,12], male sex was found to be associated with HA, which may be related to gender paradox in health (women living with worse health longer than men) [8]. These gender differences seem to be mainly attributed to men having higher no disability and social engagement than women.…”

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confidence: 87%

“…Sociodemographic factors associated with HA may include younger age [8,11,12], male sex [8,11,12], higher income/wealth [8,[12][13][14][15], ethnicity [7] and urban residence [16]. In addition, various health behaviours associated with HA have been found, including not smoking [17], alcohol consumption [8], physical activity [12,[17][18][19], healthy diet [20] and a normal body mass index [17]. Studies on HA among older adults have been conducted primarily in high-income countries, except China.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Healthy Ageing among People 50 Years and Older in South Africa

Pengpid

Peltzer

2021

Geriatrics

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Objective: this study aimed to determine the prevalence and correlates of healthy ageing in older adults living in the community in South Africa. Methods: the cross-sectional sample consisted of 3734 individuals (≥50 years) from the cross-sectional South African National Health and Nutrition Survey (SANHANES-1) in 2011–2012. Healthy ageing was assessed using a multidimensional concept, which includes five components: (1) absence of major illness, (2) absence of disability, (3) good mental health, (4) social engagement and (5) well-being or good health. Results: in general, 36.6% had a healthy ageing, including 73.3% had no major diseases, 87.1% were free of disability, 62.3% had good mental health, 73.0% were socially engaged and 64.0% had a high well-being. In the adjusted logistic regression analysis, male sex (Adjusted Odds Ratio-AOR: 1.33, 95% confidence interval-CI: 1.03–1.72), white population group (AOR: 3.46, 95% CI: 2.29–5.22) and coloured population group (AOR: 1.82, 95% CI: 1.34–2.47), were positively associated with healthy ageing, while increasing age (AOR: 0.96, 95% CI: 0.94–0.97), daily tobacco use (AOR: 0.56, 95% CI: 0.42–0.74), perceived underweight (AOR: 0.48, 95% CI: 0.34–0.66) and perceived overweight (AOR: 0.53, 95% CI: 0.34–0.81) were negatively associated with associated with healthy ageing. Conclusion: almost two in five older adults in South Africa were successfully ageing. Factors associated with healthy ageing included, younger age, male sex, population group (Whites, Coloureds), not daily tobacco users, not having underweight and overweight.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 87%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Healthy Ageing among People 50 Years and Older in South Africa

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Peltzer

2021

Geriatrics

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“…The health status of the older women and existing medical implications also reported shaping their physical activity behaviour [ 20 , 21 , 22 ]. Therefore, identifying factors that influence older women’s physical activity behaviour is crucial to promote active, healthy or successful ageing [ 23 ]. In line with this, social support, which is a social determinant of health, identified as an important modifiable factor influencing physical activity levels among older adults [ 24 , 25 ].…”

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A Qualitative Investigation on the Roles of Social Support on Physical Activity Behaviour among the Rural-Dwelling Older Women in Malaysia

Marthammuthu

Hairi

Choo

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IJERPH

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Despite many health benefits of physical activities, both physically and mentally, the majority of the older women in the rural areas of Malaysia are showing a low prevalence of physical activities. Understanding the roles of social support to improve physical activities is imperative to promote active and healthy ageing among the rural-dwelling older women in Malaysia. Hence, this qualitative study adopted an inductive design using 17 in-depth interviews to understand the role of social support on physical activity behaviour among the rural community-dwelling older woman in Kuala Pilah District, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia from December 2019 to January 2020. Three categories of themes were identified in this study. Firstly, adaptive social support in terms of informational, companionship and emotional supports reported enhancing physical activity levels among older women. Secondly, the absence of help and assistance from the social network asserts independence and triggers the older women to perform the activities by themselves, thus engage in physically active lifestyles. Thirdly, lacking social support demotivate older women to be engaged in physical activities. In particular, loss of companionship support, poor acceptance or appraisal support, logistic issues to attend exercise programmes and neighbourhood safety and security issues were among the main barriers of physical activities reported by the older women. The main findings of this study shed some light on the exigency of strengthening social support from the social network to engage the older women in physical activities. The roles of social media, effective patient-doctor communication and interventions targeting the spouses and family members must be strengthened to create a supportive atmosphere to enhance physical activity levels among older women.

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Successful ageing in the oldest old: objectively and subjectively measured evidence from a population-based survey in Germany

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2021

Eur J Ageing

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Despite rapid increase of people aged 80 and over, concepts of successful ageing (SA) are primarily examined for people below that age. Therefore, successful ageing was examined in a population-based representative sample of N = 1863 people aged 80 to 102 (NRW80+) with 11% living in institutionalized settings. In this survey on quality of life and well-being, multiple linear and logistic regression models were used to calculate the distribution of successful agers. According to Rowe and Kahn’s objective definition, 9% of the sample aged successfully, but one-third (33%) still met four to five SA criteria. This is in line with the theoretical a priori criterion of 10% in a normal distribution of a sample, while 80% age normally and 10% pathologically. However, averages of life satisfaction, affective well-being, positive ageing experience and valuation of life were high. The majority of the oldest old (65%) are successful agers in their own subjective perception, which is not in line with objective measurements. Moreover, 11% of objectively measured successful agers do not meet subjective criteria. These empirical findings reveal a remarkable discrepancy between objective and subjective criteria of SA. Future research on concepts that define successful ageing for the oldest old should consider more holistic markers of success, e.g., outcomes of productive social engagement.

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Associations and correlates of general versus specific successful ageing components

Cited by 11 publications

References 55 publications

Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Healthy Ageing among People 50 Years and Older in South Africa

Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Healthy Ageing among People 50 Years and Older in South Africa

A Qualitative Investigation on the Roles of Social Support on Physical Activity Behaviour among the Rural-Dwelling Older Women in Malaysia

Successful ageing in the oldest old: objectively and subjectively measured evidence from a population-based survey in Germany

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