Socio-economic status and trajectories of a novel multidimensional metric of Active and Healthy Ageing: the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.

ABSTRACT: Healthy ageing research largely has a unidimensional focus on physical health, negating the importance of psychosocial factors in the maintenance of a good quality-of-life. In this cohort study, we aimed to identify trajectories of a new multidimensional metric of Active and Healthy Ageing (AHA), including their associations with socio-economic variables. A latent AHA metric was created for 14,755 participants across eight waves of data (collected between 2004 and 2019) from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), using Bayesian Multilevel Item Response Theory (MLIRT). Then, Growth Mixture Modelling (GMM) was employed to identify sub-groups of individuals with similar trajectories of AHA, and multinomial logistic regression examined associations of these trajectories with socio-ec

SUBMITTER: Malkowski OS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10102137 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature