Are younger cohorts in the USA and England ageing better?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Whether worldwide increases in life expectancy are accompanied by a better health status is still a debate. People age differently, and there is a need to disentangle whether healthy-ageing pathways can be shaped by cohort effects. This study aims to analyse trends in health status in two large nationally representative samples of older adults from England and the USA.

Methods

The sample comprised 55 684 participants from the first seven waves of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), and the first 11 waves of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). A common latent health score based on Bayesian multilevel item response theory was used. Two Bayesian mixed-effects multilevel models were used to assess cohort effects on health in ELSA and HRS separately, co

SUBMITTER: de la Fuente J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6929538 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature