Selfie Aging Index: An Index for the Self-assessment of Healthy and Active Aging.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Governments across Europe want to promote healthy and active aging, as a matter of both public health and economic sustainability. Designing policies focused on the most vulnerable groups requires information at the individual level. However, a measure of healthy and active aging at the individual level does not yet exist.

Objectives

This paper develops the Selfie Aging Index (SAI), an individual-level index of healthy and active aging. The SAI is developed thinking about a tool that would allow each person to take a selfie of her aging status. Therefore, it is based entirely on self-assessed indicators. This paper also illustrates how the SAI may look like in practice.

Methods

The SAI is based on the Biopsychosocial Assessment Model (MAB),

SUBMITTER: Goncalves J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5744477 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature