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J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:71 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096727s
  • Friday 11 September, Parallel session C
  • Ageing

The association between psychosocial status and mortality in older adults: evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

  1. C. C. Craigs,
  2. A. O. House,
  3. J. Hewison,
  4. R. M. West
  1. Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

      Objectives

      To evaluate the effect of psychosocial status on mortality risk among non-institutionalised older adults in England, controlling for selected demographic, health and lifestyle factors.

      Participants

      Cohort of 11 392 participants born on or before 29 February 1952 who responded to Wave 1 of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), collected in 2002, and who participated in the Health Survey for England (HSE) survey in years 1998, 1999, or 2001.

      Methods

      The following three measures of psychosocial health, which were …

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