Socioeconomic Status Across the Life-Course and Frailty in Older Age: Evidence From Switzerland.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study examines how different measures of socioeconomic status (SES) across childhood and adulthood relate to frailty in older age.

Methods

Data came from the Lausanne cohort 65+ (Lc65+), a population-based study of approximately 4,500 older adults followed over 20 years. SES measures included education in young adulthood, occupational class in midlife, and specific early old-age factors: perceived income, wealth, financial strain, and receipt of financial subsidies. Frailty trajectories over a 10-year period were assessed using Fried's frailty phenotype and group-based trajectory modeling. Logistic regression models adjusted for sex, age, cohort, living situation, marital status, and number of children.

Results

Lower education, occupational class, fina

SUBMITTER: Henchoz Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12183461 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature