ASSOCIATIONS OF CHILDHOOD SOCIOECONOMIC POSITION WITH FRAILTY TRAJECTORIES AT OLDER AGE

Poor socioeconomic circumstances during childhood have been shown to be associated with negative health outcomes at older age. Frailty is an important outcome associated with ageing, but research on risk factors of frailty is lacking. We aimed to assess associations of childhood socioeconomic positi...

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Published in:Innovation in aging 2017-07, Vol.1 (suppl_1), p.235-236
Main Authors: van der Linden, B.W., Cheval, B., Sieber, S., Guessous, I., Kliegel, M., Courvoisier, D., Cullati, S.
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Language:English
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Summary:Poor socioeconomic circumstances during childhood have been shown to be associated with negative health outcomes at older age. Frailty is an important outcome associated with ageing, but research on risk factors of frailty is lacking. We aimed to assess associations of childhood socioeconomic position (CSP) with frailty trajectories at older age. Data on well-being, health, socioeconomic situation, and retrospective life course from 17,916 individuals aged 50 years and over included in the longitudinal Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe study was used. Frailty, including pre-frailty, was operationalized as presenting either weakness, shrinking, exhaustion, slowness, or low activity. Confounder-adjusted multilevel logistic regression models were used to analyze associations of CSP with frailty trajectories. Results showed that disadvantaged CSP was associated with higher risk of (pre)frailty and that this association was mediated by education for both men and women (OR=1.45, p
ISSN:2399-5300
2399-5300
DOI:10.1093/geroni/igx004.874