Are there educational disparities in health and functioningamong the oldest old? Evidence from the Nordic countries
dc.contributor.author | Enroth, Linda | |
dc.contributor.author | Veenstra, Marijke | |
dc.contributor.author | Aartsen, Marja | |
dc.contributor.author | Kjær, Agnete Aslaug | |
dc.contributor.author | Nilsson, Charlotte Juul | |
dc.contributor.author | Fors, Stefan | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-06-18T09:47:56Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-06-19T09:00:06Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-06-18T09:47:56Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-06-19T09:00:06Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-06-17 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Enroth L, Veenstra M, Aartsen M, Kjær, Nilsson CJ, Fors S. Are there educational disparities in health and functioningamong the oldest old? Evidence from the Nordic countries. European Journal of Ageing. 2019 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1613-9372 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1613-9372 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1613-9380 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10642/7217 | |
dc.description.abstract | With the ageing of the population and recent pressures on important welfare state arrangements, updated knowledge on the linkage between socioeconomic status and health in old age is pertinent for shedding light on emerging patterns of health inequalities in the Nordic countries. This study examined self-rated health (SRH), mobility and activities of daily living (ADL) according to level of education in the three oldest old age groups 75–84, 85–94, and 95+, in four Nordic countries. Altogether, 6132 individuals from Danish Longitudinal Study of Ageing, Norwegian Life Course, Ageing and Generation study, Swedish Panel Study of Living Conditions of the Oldest Old, the 5-Country Oldest Old (Sweden) and Vitality 90 + Study were analysed. First, associations of education level with SRH, mobility, and ADL were estimated for each individual study by means of age- and gender-adjusted logistic regression. Second, results from individual studies were synthesized in a meta-analysis. Older adults with higher education level were more likely to report good SRH, and they were more often independent in mobility and ADL than those with basic education when all age groups were combined. In mobility and ADL, differences between education groups remained stable across the age groups but for SRH, differences seemed to be weaker in older ages. With only a few exceptions, in all age groups, individuals with higher education had more favourable health and functioning than those with basic education. This study shows remarkable persistence of health and functioning inequalities in the Nordic countries throughout later life. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | This study was carried out as a part of the Social Inequalities in Ageing (SIA) project, which was funded by NordForsk (74637). | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Springer Verlag (Germany) | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | European Journal of Ageing;December 2019, Volume 16, Issue 4 | |
dc.rights | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. | en |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.subject | Inequalities | en |
dc.subject | Self-rated health | en |
dc.subject | Functionings | en |
dc.subject | Oldest old | en |
dc.subject | Nordic countries | en |
dc.subject | Prospective meta-analyses | en |
dc.subject | Old age groups | |
dc.title | Are there educational disparities in health and functioningamong the oldest old? Evidence from the Nordic countries | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.date.updated | 2019-06-18T09:47:56Z | |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10433-019-00517-x | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1705633 | |
dc.source.journal | European Journal of Ageing |
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