Gender, nutritional status and disability-free life expectancy among older people in Santiago, Chile.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study was aimed to estimate life expectancy (LE), disability-free life expectancy (DFLE) and disabled life expectancy (DLE) among older adults from Santiago, Chile, and to determine the existence of differences by gender and by body mass index (BMI) categories in these indicators.

Methods

A sample of 1216 people aged 60 or more, from the Chilean cohort of the Study of Health, Ageing and Well-Being was recruited in 2000; two follow-up assessments were carried out in a 10-year period. Functional limitation was assessed through self-report of difficulties in activities of daily living, instrumental activities of daily living and mobility. BMI was determined with measured weight and height. Multistate life tables were employed to estimate LE and healthy life expe

SUBMITTER: Moreno X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5874002 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature