Prospective Study of Ageing Trajectories in the European DO-HEALTH Study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Ageing trajectories range from delayed ageing with extended health to accelerated ageing, with an increased risk of frailty. We evaluated the prevalence and prospective change between health states among community-dwelling European older adults.

Methods

This prospective study is a secondary analysis of DO-HEALTH, a randomized trial that included adults aged 70 years and older across 5 European countries. Healthy agers (HA) fulfilled the Nurses' Health Study healthy ageing criteria and accelerated agers were non-HA being at least pre-frail according to the Fried frailty criteria. We assessed the proportion of participants changing between health states over 4 assessments and evaluated the odds of changing to a more favourable category. To increase reliability and

SUBMITTER: Ghisla V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9148895 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature