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Population Health

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Project

The Onset and Progression of Disability in Older Adults

Yana Catherine Vierboom, Marcus Ebeling, Christian Dudel

Detailed Description

Two process are instrumental for the increase in lifespan: the prevention of diseases and improved disease management. Both processes affect the transition from health to disability. Previous work has suggested that individual disease and health histories are central determinants of the timing and manifestation of disability. At the same time, several different factors interact with disease and health histories and thus affect the onset of disability. These factors include sociodemographic and socioeconomic characteristics, social and economic development, as well as the infrastructure and welfare systems. The project sheds light on trends and patterns in the onset and progression of disability and how these developments vary across different strata and across populations.

To gain comprehensive insights into the health dynamics, the project uses several different data sources, ranging from high-resolution registry data to longitudinal aging surveys. By applying a multifaceted set of approaches, the project tackles questions about disability onset and its interaction with other factors from several different angles.      

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)    

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)