Minimum income for healthy living and frailty in adults over 65 years old in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing: a population-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To test whether minimum income for healthy living of a person aged 65 years or older (MIHL₆₅) is associated with frailty in older adults.

Design and setting

Secondary analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, a multiwave prospective cohort study in England, UK.

Participants

A subset (n=1342) of English Longitudinal Study of Ageing participants, who at wave 1 in 2002 were aged 65 years or older, without any limiting long-standing illnesses, and who had the information required to calculate MIHL₆₅ in 2002, 2004 and 2006 and two measures of frailty in 2008.

Main outcome measures

Frailty defined using Fried's phenotype criteria and Rockwood's Index of deficits.

Results

The odds of frailty in 2008 were significantly

SUBMITTER: Watts PN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6398705 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature