Beard, John R;
Hanewald, Katja;
Si, Yafei;
Thiyagarajan, Jotheeswaran Amuthavalli;
Moreno Agostino, Dario;
(2025)
Cohort trends in intrinsic capacity in England and China.
Nature Aging
, 5
pp. 87-98.
10.1038/s43587-024-00741-w.
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Abstract
To understand how the health of older adults today compares to that of previous generations, we estimated intrinsic capacity and subdomains of cognitive, locomotor, sensory, psychological and vitality capacities in participants of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing and the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. Applying multilevel growth curve models, we found that more recent cohorts entered older ages with higher levels of capacity, while subsequent age-related declines were somewhat compressed compared to earlier cohorts. Trends were most evident for the cognitive, locomotor and vitality capacities. Improvements were large, with the greatest gains being in the most recent cohorts. For example, a 68-year-old participant of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing born in 1950 had higher capacity than a 62-year-old born 10 years earlier. Trends were similar for men and women and were generally consistent across English and Chinese cohorts. Possible causes include broad societal influences and improvements in medical care.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Cohort trends in intrinsic capacity in England and China |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s43587-024-00741-w |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-024-00741-w |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the World Health Organization, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence and indicate if changes were made. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10198321 |
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