Concordance and discordance between objectively and subjectively measured successful aging and their linkages with mortality

Abstract

Successful aging has extended from the biomedical-oriented model to the biomedical-and-psychosocial mixed model. However, few studies have investigated the subtypes of the joint classification between subjective (psychosocial-oriented) (SSA) and objective (biomedical-oriented) (OSA) measures to identify and distinguish different risk groups. This study aims to examine how concordance and discordance between SSA and OSA are associated with sub-

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