Are physical activity and everyday mobility independently associated with quality of life at older age?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Physical activity and everyday mobility are concepts that overlap but tend to be located in different disciplinary fields. We used the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) to: identify whether physical activity and everyday mobility are separate constructs at younger (60-69) and/or older (>=70) age bands, and for men and women; derive measures of the two constructs from variables in the ELSA; and assess whether they are independently associated with quality of life (QoL).

Methods

We derived composite measures for physical activity and everyday mobility from ELSA variables. 'Physical Activity' combined items recording directly-measured activity for movement (walk-speed) and self-report measures of physical mobility difficulties and amount of vigorous, modera

SUBMITTER: Elliott J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11413527 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature