Life-Course Circumstances and Frailty in Old Age Within Different European Welfare Regimes: A Longitudinal Study With SHARE.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aimed to assess whether cumulative disadvantage in childhood misfortune and adult-life socioeconomic conditions influence the risk of frailty in old age and whether welfare regimes influence these associations.

Method

Data from 23,358 participants aged 50 years and older included in the longitudinal SHARE survey were used. Frailty was operationalized according to Fried's phenotype as presenting either weakness, shrinking, exhaustion, slowness, or low activity. Confounder-adjusted mixed-effects logistic regression models were used to analyze associations of childhood misfortune and life-course socioeconomic conditions with frailty.

Results

Childhood misfortune and poor adult-life socioeconomic conditions increased the odds of (pre-)frailty at olde

SUBMITTER: Van Der Linden BWA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7265805 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature