Functional aging trajectories of older cancer survivors: a latent growth analysis of the US Health and Retirement Study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

We aimed to identify prototypical functional aging trajectories of US cancer survivors aged 50 and older, overall and stratified by sociodemographic and health-related characteristics.

Methods

Data were from 2986 survivors of a first incident cancer diagnosis (except non-melanoma skin cancer) after age 50 in the population representative U.S. Health and Retirement Study from 1998-2016. Cancer diagnoses, episodic memory function, and activity of daily living (ADL) limitations were assessed at biennial study interviews. Using time of cancer diagnosis as the baseline, we used group-based trajectory modeling to identify trajectories of memory function and ADL limitations following diagnosis.

Results

We identified five memory loss trajectories (high: 8.4%; medium-h

SUBMITTER: Westrick AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9411262 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature