Laboratory

Population Health

Project

The Onset and Progression of Disability in Older Adults

Yana Catherine Vierboom, Marcus Ebeling, Christian Dudel

Differences in how disability affects the elderly can be observed across countries. The project investigates trends and patterns in the onset and progression of disability and how these developments vary across different strata and populations. Detailed Description

Research Keywords:

Aging, Mortality and Longevity

Publications

Meyer, A. C.; Ebeling, M.; Acosta, E.; Modig, K.:

Continued decline in the incidence of myocardial infarction beyond the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide study of the Swedish population aged 60 and older during 2015–2022

European Journal of Epidemiology, 1–8. (2024)

Meyer, A. C.; Ebeling, M.; Modig, K.:

Trajectories of long-term care after stroke in Sweden: nationwide study exploring patterns and determinants

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. forthcoming. (2024)

Zhang, Y.; Murata, S.; Schmidt-Mende, K.; Ebeling, M.; Modig, K.:

Do people reach 100 by surviving, delaying, or avoiding diseases? A life course comparison of centenarians and non-centenarians from the same birth cohorts

GeroScience, 1–11. (2024)

Murata, S.; Meyer, A. C.; Ebeling, M.; Modig, K.:

Centenarians: who are they? A description of the total Swedish centenarian population in terms of living arrangements, health, and care utilization

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 1–9. (2023)

Höhn, A.; McGurnaghan , S. J.; Caparrotta, T. M.; Jeyam , A.; O'Reilly, J. E.; Blackbourn, L. A. K.; Hatam, S.; Dudel, C.; Seaman, R. J.; Mellor, J.; Sattar, N.; McCrimmon, R. J.; Kennon, B.; Petrie, J. R.; Wild, S.; McKeigue, P. M.; Colhoun, H. M.:

Large socioeconomic gap in period life expectancy and life years spent with complications of diabetes in the Scottish population with type 1 diabetes, 2013–2018

PLOS One 17:8, e0271110–e0271110. (2022)

Vierboom, Y. C.:

How does it all end? Trends and disparities in health at the end of life

PLOS One 17:7, e0267551–e0267551. (2022)

Ebeling, M.; Rau, R.; Håkan, M.; Ahlbom, A.; Modig, K.:

The rate by which mortality increase with age is the same for those who experienced chronic disease as for the general population

Age and Ageing 50:5, 1633–1640. (2021)

Kühn, S.; Düzel, S.; Mascherek, A.; Eibich, P.; Krekel, C.; Kolbe, J.; Goebel, J.; Gallinat, J.; Wagner , G. G.; Lindenberger, U.:

Urban green is more than the absence of city: structural and functional neural basis of urbanicity and green space in the neighbourhood of older adults

Landscape and Urban Planning 214:104196, 1–8. (2021)

Kolodziejczak, K.; Rosada, A.; Drewelies, J.; Düzel, S.; Eibich, P.; Tegeler, C.; Wagner , G. G.; Beier, K. M.; Ram, N.; Demuth, I.; Steinhagen-Thiessen, E.; Gerstorf, D.:

Sexual activity, sexual thoughts, and intimacy among older adults: links with physical health and psychosocial resources for successful aging

Psychology and Aging 34:3, 389–404. (2019)

Mutambudzi, M.; Díaz-Venegas, C.; Manon, S.:

Association between baseline glycemic markers (HbA1c) and 8-Year trajectories of functional disability

Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences 74:11, 1828–1834. (2019)

Díaz-Venegas, C.; Reistetter, T. A.; Wong, R.:

Differences in the progression of disability: a U.S.-Mexico comparison

Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 73:5, 913–922. (2018)

Doblhammer, G.; Peters, S.; Rizzuto, D.; Welmer, A.:

The effect of current family situation on slow walking speed at old age

In: A demographic perspective on gender, family and health in Europe, 283–303. Cham: Springer Open. (2018)

Hong, I.; Reistetter, T. A.; Díaz-Venegas, C.; Michaels-Obregón, A.; Wong, R.: