Social participation patterns and their associations with health and well-being for older adults.

ABSTRACT: Older adults are at an elevated risk of adverse health effects associated with social isolation and loneliness. Social participation is considered a modifiable determinant of health and well-being and has been proposed as a means to reduce this risk. However, there is limited knowledge to date about patterns of social activities among older adults. Using two waves of the Swiss Household Panel, a latent class analysis is performed to obtain discrete social participation profiles of adults aged 60 and older. Descriptive statistics and regression methods are used to study group compositions and estimate associations with self-assessed health, negative and positive affect, and life satisfaction. Once individual time-constant characteristics are controlled for, the majority of the positive asso

SUBMITTER: Dawson-Townsend K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6609834 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature