ArticleDemography2010
Trends in health of older adults in the United States: past, present, future.
Article in Demography, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers.
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57 citing papers in PubMed.
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- The rosetta stone of successful ageing: does oral health have a role?Biogerontology · 2023Review
- Measuring spatial availability of children for older adults with disability.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Article
- Trends in Activity Limitations From an International Perspective: Differential Changes Between Age Groups Across 30 Countries.Journal of aging and health · 2023Article
- Differential Trends in Disability Among Rich and Poor Adults in the United States and England From 2002 to 2016.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2022Article
- Sex differences in functional limitations and the role of socioeconomic factors: a multi-cohort analysis.The lancet. Healthy longevity · 2021Article
- Trends in U.S. Population Health: The Central Role of Policies, Politics, and Profits.Journal of health and social behavior · 2021Review
- Reliability and Validity of the Function Impairment Screening Tool in Chinese Older Adults.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Article
- Trends in Pain Prevalence among Adults Aged 50 and Older across Europe, 2004 to 2015.Journal of aging and health · 2020Article
- Incidence Rates of Disability and Its Associated Factors among Korean Community-Dwelling Older Adults.Iranian journal of public health · 2020Article
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- Changing Impact of Obesity on Active Life Expectancy of Older Americans.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2019Article
- Examination of Human Health Impacts Due to Adverse Climate Events Through the Use of Vulnerability Mapping: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Fraying Families: Demographic Divergence in the Parental Safety Net.Demography · 2019Article
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Abstract
The decline in late-life disability prevalence in the United States was one of the most important developments in the well-being of older Americans in the 1980s and 1990s, but there is no guarantee that it will continue into the future. We review the past literature on trends in disability and other health indicators and then estimate the most recent trends in biomarkers and limitations for both the population aged 65 and older and those aged 40 to 64, the future elderly. We then investigate the extent to which trends in education, smoking, and obesity can account for recent trends in limitations and discuss how these three factors might influence future prospects for late-life health. We find that improvements in the health of the older population generally have continued into the first decade of the twenty-first century. The recent increase in the proportion of the younger population needing help with activities of daily living is concerning, as is the doubling of obesity in the last few decades. However the increase in obesity has recently paused, and favorable trends in education and smoking are encouraging.
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