Subjective social status and trajectories of frailty: findings from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Subjective social status is a known antecedent for many health outcomes, but little research has examined the association between subjective status and frailty among older people. Using longitudinal data, the goal of this study was, first, to identify latent trajectories of frailty over time, and second, to investigate the relationship between subjective social status and frailty trajectory.

Methods

Data were drawn from the 2002-2019 surveys of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, involving 9484 individuals aged 50+ years at baseline. Group-based trajectory models were used to identify frailty trajectories over the 18-year period, and multinomial regression models were used to investigate the relationship between subjective social status and frailty trajector

SUBMITTER: Maharani A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11812829 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature