Healthy aging and late-life depression in Europe: Does migration matter?

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is limited research examining the impact of risk and protective factors on late-life depression using large population-based datasets, particularly those examining differences among older migrants and non-migrants in Europe countries. Thus, the first aim was to analyze differences between migrants and non-migrants regarding socioeconomic status, depression, multimorbidity, healthy aging, and lifestyle behaviors. The second aim was to examine the impact of healthy aging on late-life depression in older migrants compared to their counterparts without a history of international migration in extensive and harmonized data from different population-based cohort studies.

Materials and methods

We analyzed cross-sectional, predominantly nationally representative, com

SUBMITTER: Marin IB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9680089 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature