Disability and all-cause mortality in the older population: evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.

ABSTRACT: Despite the vast body of literature studying disability and mortality, evidence to support their association is scarce. This work investigates the role of disability in explaining all-cause mortality among individuals aged 50+ who participated in the English Longitudinal Study of Aging. The aim is to explain the gender paradox in health and mortality by analysing whether the association of disability with mortality differs between women and men. Disability was conceived following the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), proposed by the WHO, that conceptualizes disability as a combination of three components: impairment, activity limitation and participation restriction. Latent variable models were used to identify domain-specific factors and general dis

SUBMITTER: Pongiglione B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5005412 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature