Trajectories of hospitalizations after age-based statutory retirement.

ABSTRACT: Retirement years are ideally spent in good health. We aimed to produce new information using person-oriented methods by identifying groups of statutory retirees who did or did not achieve this objective and the factors that distinguish these groups from each other. Our particular focus was on the years directly after the transition into retirement, and the pre-retirement factors that explained the development of health, using a more severe health-related outcome-hospitalization. We studied the retirement, hospitalizations, education, and work characteristics of former employees of the City of Helsinki, Finland (N = 6569), from complete registers. We used group-based trajectory models and identified groups of constant low, constant high, decreasing, and temporarily occurring hospitalization

SUBMITTER: Pietilainen O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10613168 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature