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Do psychosocial factors modify the negative association between disability and life satisfaction in old age?
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- A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Association Between Physical Capability, Social Support, Loneliness, Depression, Anxiety, and Life Satisfaction in Older Adults.The Gerontologist · 2024Pooled it
- Determinants of active aging and quality of life among older adults: systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2023Pooled it
- Impact of disability and selected factors on the quality of life in the older people in southeastern Poland - a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Predictors of life satisfaction among older men living alone: Analysis of the 2020 National Survey of Older Koreans: A cross-sectional study.Journal of Korean gerontological nursing · 2024Article
- Trajectories of generalized anxiety disorder, major depression and change in quality of life in adults aged 50 + : findings from a longitudinal analysis using representative, population-based data from Ireland.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2023Observational
- Visual Impairment in Hemodialyzed Patients-An IVIS Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- Development and Validation of a Multidimensional Population-Based Healthy Aging Scale: Results From the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Article
- Mental component of health-related quality of life is an independent predictor of incident functional disability among community-dwelling older people: a prospective cohort study.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2021Article
- Factors associated with quality of life in retirement: a systematic review.Revista brasileira de medicina do trabalho : publicacao oficial da Associacao Nacional de Medicina do Trabalho-ANAMTArticle
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Abstract
contextMany assume that having poor physical health in old age lowers life satisfaction, but in fact there are large differences in life satisfaction among older people who experience disability.
objectiveTo investigate whether psychosocial factors modify the negative association between disability and life satisfaction in older people and whether these differ across the life course.
designCross sectional study.
setting66,561 community-dwelling Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) participants aged 50-106 with a mean age of 67.8 ± 9.9 (SD) years from 17 European countries and Israel.
methodsPsychosocial factors included depression (EURO-D scale), perceived loneliness, having a spouse, having children, contact with children, and participation in social activities. Disability was assessed by limitations in (Instrumental) Activities of Daily Living ((I)ADL) and life satisfaction by Cantril's ladder. We also ran the analyses with the Control Autonomy Self-realization Pleasure (CASP-12) Index, a normative measure of quality of life. We used multiple linear regressions to estimate associations and proportion of variance explained.
resultsThe variance in life satisfaction that could be attributed uniquely to ADL and IADL disability was 0.17% and 0.33% respectively (both p < 0.001). The impact of (I)ADL disabilities on life satisfaction was strongest at age 50 and gradually decreased with increasing age (p trend < 0.001). Mental health explained more variance; 5.75% for depressive symptoms and 2.50% for loneliness and for social resources this ranged from 0.09% to 0.47% (all p < 0.001). While disability has a negative effect on life satisfaction, the effect was not stronger in older persons who were depressed, neither in those who felt lonely nor in those without social resources. Similar outcomes were found when using CASP-12 as the explained variable.
conclusionThe impact of (I)ADL disabilities on life satisfaction in community-dwelling older people decreases with age. These associations are not affected by psychosocial factors and these patterns cannot be explained by people changing their norms and values.
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