The perks of doing housework: Longitudinal associations with survival and underlying mechanisms.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although the majority of existing literature has suggested positive effects of housework on older adults' health and survival rate, the underlying mechanisms of such effects remain unclear. To address potential mechanisms, the present study examined the association between older adults' housework engagement and days of survival across 14 years and tested three potential mediation pathways in this association.

Methods

Four thousand Hong Kong older adults (50% female; aged between 65 and 98 years) participated in a longitudinal study in which they reported initial housework engagement and health status across three domains (cognitive functioning, physical health, and mental health) at the baseline, and the numbers of days they survived over the subsequent 14-year pe

SUBMITTER: Chu L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10242587 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature