ArticleEuropean journal of ageing2023
Retirement's impact on health: what role does social network play?
Article in European journal of ageing, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
- The association of social networks and depression in community-dwelling older adults: a systematic review.Systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Residential Mobility and Active Aging Trajectories Around Retirement: A Propensity Score-Matched Event-Aligned Longitudinal Study in Korea.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2026Article
- Staying active, staying satisfied: how subjective well-being shapes ageing after retirement.BMC public health · 2026Article
- The effect of long-term care insurance on health outcomes and medical services utilization: based on an analysis of moderating effect of disability.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2025Article
- Bridging the Gap Between Policy and Action: Identifying the Social Security Doctrine in Iran.Cureus · 2025Article
- Wellbeing and Retirement in Europe: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Characteristics of physical activity and sedentary behavior in patients undergoing outpatient cardiac rehabilitation.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The effect of long-term care insurance on women's health outcomes in China: evidence from a disability inclusion action.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Geographical accessibility of medical resources, health status, and demand of integrated care for older people: a cross-sectional survey from Western China.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Men's Social Connectedness in Later Life: A Qualitative Study with Older Men.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Effect of long-term care insurance policy on depression in non-disabled people: evidence from China.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Material and social deprivation associated with public health actual causes of death among older people in Europe: longitudinal and multilevel results from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE).Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Association between internet use and depression among the middle-aged and elderly adults with multimorbidity in China: do gender differences exist?Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Work till old age: an analysis of self-employment's impact on depression among the older adults in China.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Validation of the Retirement Resources Inventory in Persian: Assessing Psychometric Properties among Iranian Retirees.Current gerontology and geriatrics research · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
While a large body of literature investigates the bidirectional relationship between retirement and health, few have analyzed the mechanism through which retirement affects health which will provide important policy instrument insights. Using three waves of National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project, we examine the mediating role of the social network in the relationship between retirement and health in USA. We address the endogeneity and reverse causality through panel instrumental fixed-effect methods. We apply both single and parallel mediation analyses to identify the potential mechanism by which social network characteristics mediate the impact of retirement on health. Findings reveal that retirement adversely affects physical and mental health outcomes, and a considerable portion of these effects are explained by social network changes post-retirement. Specifically, 58% of reduction in the probability of reporting good physical health and 4.5% of increment in chances of having depression symptoms post-retirement can be explained by shrinkage in the size of social network in retirees. Using parallel mediation identification to account for dependencies among social network features, we find that social network size induces 79.5% reduction in probability of reporting good physical health and 18.6% increase in probability of having depression in retirees as compared to non-retirees. Findings in this paper suggest that investing in social network of the elderly can buffer the adverse health effect of retirement and can be an effective policy target for promoting healthy aging.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.