The effects of socioeconomic conditions on old-age mortality within shared disability pathways.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

How disability manifests itself in an individual is a highly complex process influenced by a wide range of individual and environmental factors. Its complexity makes the search for generalizable characteristics of the disablement process a challenging task. Consequentially, little is known about how the effect on other health outcomes such as life expectancy are modified after the onset of chronic ailments. In this paper we posit an alternative approach to generalize health trajectories of older people with disability and then analyze how socioeconomic conditions affect the longevity within these trajectory groups.

Methods

Individual level information about the first three successive onsets of chronic disability after age 50 is transformed into state-sequences. We

SUBMITTER: Voigt M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7470411 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature