Exploring the association of lifestyle behaviors and healthy ageing among the older adults in India: evidence from LASI survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding health and developing trends among the older population is essential for countries to tackle the challenges of an ageing population and formulate relevant policies. Facilitating healthy ageing is an essential strategy to address the issues arising among the aged. The concept of healthy ageing is defined as "the process of developing and maintaining the functional ability that enables wellbeing in old age (WHO)," where "functional ability comprises the health-related attributes that enable people to be and to do what they have reason to value." People have different ageing pathways depending on their genetic profile and different life course health risk exposures. Therefore, ageing, more specifically healthy ageing, largely depends on individual lifestyle ch

SUBMITTER: Mandi R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10585826 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature