Physical and mental health conditions account for variability in awareness of age-related changes

Sabatini, Serena; Turner, Shelbie; Brooker, Helen; Ballard, Clive; Corbett, Anne; Hampshire, Adam

doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1152177

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“…On average, dementia caregivers have more chronic health conditions than non-dementia caregivers (Alzheimer's Association, 2022) and non-caregivers (Janson et al, 2022), and health conditions (Sabatini et al, 2022(Sabatini et al, , 2023b, especially the onset of new diagnoses (Rupprecht et al, 2022), are associated with poorer VoA. As such, we were surprised that the caregivers in our sample did not experience changes in FA when they experienced changes to the number of health conditions they had.…”

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Correlates of felt age in caregivers of people with dementia: findings from the IDEAL study

Sabatini,

Turner,

Morris

et al. 2024

Front. Psychol.

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ObjectiveFamily relationships influence how people appraise their own aging and how their appraisals impact their health. We analyzed felt age (FA) among family caregivers of people with dementia.Methods and measuresWe used a stratified sample of 1,020 spousal and 202 adult-child caregivers from the IDEAL study. We estimated cross-sectional associations and bidirectional influences between caregivers' FA and their health and wellbeing (depression, number of health conditions, stress, positive aspects of caregiving) over 2 years.ResultsAmong spousal caregivers, 25% had a younger FA and 36% had an older FA. Among adult-child caregivers, 21.8% had a younger FA and 36.1% had an older FA. In spousal and adult-child caregivers an older FA was cross-sectionally associated with higher depression, number of health conditions, and stress, and fewer positive aspects of caregiving. In spousal caregivers, hours of care per day moderated the association between FA and depression, and FA was associated with stress 1 year later.ConclusionCaregiving may impact FA and its relationship with health. We urge continued research on the connections between caregiving and FA, and how interventions might support caregivers' positive views on their own aging, which will translate views on aging scholarship to meaningfully improve caregivers' lives.

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confidence: 75%

Correlates of felt age in caregivers of people with dementia: findings from the IDEAL study

Sabatini,

Turner,

Morris

et al. 2024

Front. Psychol.

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“…In Germany, some early-to-late middle-aged adults have expressed significant over-time dissatisfaction with their social ties and lives in general [87]. Ownhealth negativity procured similar sentiments over age-related losses and gains among middle-aged Italians [88]. Physical symptoms of COVID-19 that often disrupt home, work, and school life can also linger for more than one year [89].…”

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Suitability of the Attitudes to Aging Questionnaire Short Form for Use among Adults in Their 50s: A Cross-Sectional e-Survey Study

Low,

França,

Wilson

et al. 2023

IJERPH

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This cross-sectional e-survey study examines the suitability (reliability and validity) of the 12-item Attitudes to Aging Questionnaire Short Form (AAQ-SF) for use among adults in their 50s. The AAQ-SF instrument was originally designed to capture subjective perceptions of physical change, psychosocial loss, and psychological growth by asking people aged 60 and beyond how they feel about growing older. Our sample comprised 517 people residing in three Canadian provinces. Respondents completed the Attitudes to Aging Questionnaire Short Form, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, and a short sociodemographic profile. Our findings replicate the original AAQ-SF structure for physical change, psychosocial loss, and psychological growth, with a promising internal consistency range for the third subscale. In our sample, psychological growth is best represented as ‘Self’ and ‘Generativity’, with a particularly greater capacity to explain variations in scores for item 18 and item 21. Physical change and psychosocial loss scores strongly differed based on perceived health and chronic illness presence. Psychosocial loss and psychological growth were moderately correlated with two aspects of self-esteem. We relate these patterns of findings within the context of prevailing growth and development theory and their perceived implications within the context of COVID-19 and post-pandemic life.

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“…Although O'Brien et al (2021) explored AARC-gains and AARC-losses in relation to cognitive interference and stress in a sample of people aged 21-78, the associations between AARC-gains and AARC-losses and other developmental correlates have so far been explored among individuals aged 40+. Lower AARC-gains and higher AARC-losses tend to be associated with poorer self-rated health, less functional ability, more negative medical assessments, greater frailty, poorer self-reported sleep, and greater pain (Brothers et al, 2021;Sabatini, Silarova, et al, 2020;Sabatini, Turner, et al, 2023;Sabatini, Ukoumunne, et al, 2020;. Moreover, higher AARC-losses are associated with poorer performance on cognitive tasks assessing memory, perceptual speed, knowledge, and reasoning, although effects are either small or negligible (Sabatini, Ukoumunne, Ballard, Collins, Anstey, et al, 2021;Voelkner & Caskie, 2023).…”

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Levels of awareness of age-related gains and losses throughout adulthood and their developmental correlates.

Sabatini,

Rupprecht,

Diehl

et al. 2023

Psychology and Aging

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Views of aging predict key developmental outcomes. Less is known, however, about the consequences of constellations of domain-specific perceived gains and losses across the full adult lifespan. First, we explored levels of awareness of age-related gains (AARC-gains) and losses (AARC-losses) in five behavioral domains across adulthood. Second, we identified the number and types of profiles of AARC-gains and AARC-losses in young adulthood, midlife, young–old age, and old–old age. Third, we investigated whether the identified profiles differed in their associations with developmental correlates. Data came from the 2018 German Socio-Economic Panel Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS), comprising 403 young, 721 middle-aged, 260 young–old and 228 old–old individuals. We assessed AARC, physical and mental functioning, information processing speed, social relations, lifestyle, and engagement. At the sample level, AARC-losses were higher in old age, whereas AARC-gains did not differ across adulthood. Latent profile analyses revealed two distinguishable constellations of AARC-gains and AARC-losses that characterize young adulthood and old–old age, whereas four and three gains-to-losses constellations are needed to characterize midlife and young–old age, respectively. In middle, young–old, and old–old age, profiles with more AARC-losses were associated with poorer scores on all developmental correlates. Overall, study results suggest that age-related experiences are most diversified in midlife and young–old age. Asking individuals about their negative age-related experiences may help identify those individuals who are doing less well in important developmental correlates.

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Physical and mental health conditions account for variability in awareness of age-related changes

Cited by 4 publications

References 66 publications

Correlates of felt age in caregivers of people with dementia: findings from the IDEAL study

Correlates of felt age in caregivers of people with dementia: findings from the IDEAL study

Suitability of the Attitudes to Aging Questionnaire Short Form for Use among Adults in Their 50s: A Cross-Sectional e-Survey Study

Levels of awareness of age-related gains and losses throughout adulthood and their developmental correlates.

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