Joint trajectories of physical activity, health, and income before and after statutory retirement: A 22-year follow-up.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health behaviors, health, and income change during aging. However, no previous studies have examined, how they develop together over the transition to statutory retirement. We aimed to examine their joint development and to identify the determinants of any distinct trajectories.

Methods

We studied former employees of the City of Helsinki, Finland, who transitioned to full statutory retirement between 2000 and 2022 (n = 5209, 80% women). We examined five repeated questionnaire surveys to identify any joint developmental patterns in the key indicators of healthy aging and well-being-leisure-time physical activity, health measured by general health perceptions, and household income, over a follow-up of 22 years. We used joint group-based trajectory analysis to identi

SUBMITTER: Lallukka T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11778762 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature