A socio-demographic study of aging in the Portuguese population: The EPEPP study

Mota-Pinto, Anabela; Rodrigues, Víctor; Botelho, Amália; Veríssimo, Manuel Teixeira; Morais, António; Alves, Catarina; Rosa, Manuel Santos; Oliveira, Catarina R.

doi:10.1016/j.archger.2010.04.019

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“…A total of 2,672 people, aged 55 or more, were submitted to an enquiry at the previously selected 26 Health Centres [4]. The survey was performed on 2,516 individuals, in order to obtain a maximum error of 2 % with a 95 % interval of confidence.…”

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The Aging Profile of the Portuguese Population: A Principal Component Analysis

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In the last 5 years the resident population of Portugal has increased 2.3%, along with a progressive ageing. This study aims assessing the social dependence and frailty, as well as social and familial support needs of the elderly. In an observational, cross-sectional community based study (EPEPP study), a total of 2,672 people, aged 55 or more, were submitted to an enquiry and several variables were studied among three age groups: 55-64 years old (37%), 65-74 years old (37%) and ≥ 75 years old (26%), encompassing a total of 57% women and 43% men. A questionnaire including items such as physical autonomy, locomotion, falls, health/medical complaints, instrumental autonomy, physical activity, health self-evaluation and emotional status was applied. The strong correlations among the studied scores allowed the identification of people groups with common characteristics when a principal component analysis was used: "autonomy" (scores of instrumental autonomy, locomotion and physical autonomy) and "perception of health and emotional status" (scores of health self-evaluation and emotional status), were present in the three age groups. The component analysis evidences that a good autonomy, a good perception of health and emotional status are determinant to a good quality of life in elderly. Although health status and self-rated health have a propensity to deteriorate with aging, older Portuguese consider their state of health satisfactory and tend to underestimate their decline. In what concerns the analysis of gender with the same age and in contrast to what has been reported, older women alike to men, experience a good mobility and health self-evaluation.

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The Aging Profile of the Portuguese Population: A Principal Component Analysis

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“…The Estudo do Perfil de Envelhecimento da População Portuguesa (EPEPP) study, a cross-sectional study performed in 2005 and 2006, enrolled 2672 adults aged over 55 years old and mainly evaluated third-party dependency, functional ability, and laboratory results. 11,12 Portugal is one of the 28 participant countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), a multidisciplinary, cross-national panel database of approximately 123 000 adults aged 50 or older containing microdata regarding health, socioeconomic status, and social and family networks. 13 Despite these initiatives, comprehensive and multidimensional data of older groups representative of the Portuguese population are lacking.…”

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Challenges of Ageing in Portugal: Data from the EpiDoC Cohort

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RESUMOIntrodução: A esperança de vida está a aumentar em Portugal, contudo desconhece-se o estado de saúde dos idosos. Pretende-se determinar a prevalência de multimorbilidade, caracterizar estilos de vida e outros fatores relacionados com a saúde dos idosos. Material e Métodos: Efetuou-se uma avaliação transversal a 2393 adultos com 65 ou mais anos de idade, da coorte EpiDoC que é constituída por uma amostra representativa da população portuguesa. Os inquiridos responderam a um questionário estruturado através de uma entrevista telefónica, tendo-se recolhido dados socioeconómicos demográficos, estilo de vida, doenças crónicas e consumo de recursos em saúde. Análise de clusters foi realizada para a identificação de padrões alimentares. Efetuou-se análise descritiva e analítica para estimar a prevalência de multimorbilidade e fatores associados. ABSTRACT Introduction: Portuguese adults have a long lifespan, but it is unclear whether they live a healthy life in their final years. We aimed to determine the prevalence of multimorbidity and characterize lifestyle and other health outcomes among older Portuguese adults. Material and Methods:We performed a cross-sectional evaluation of 2393 adults, aged 65 and older, during the second wave of follow-up of the EpiDoC cohort, a population-based study involving long-term follow-up of a representative sample of the Portuguese population. Subjects completed a structured questionnaire during a telephone interview. Socioeconomic, demographic, lifestyle behaviours, chronic diseases, and health resources consumption were assessed. Cluster analysis was done to identify dietary patterns. Descriptive and analytic analysis was performed to estimate multimorbidity prevalence and its associated factors. Results: Multimorbidity prevalence among older adults was 78.3%, increased with age strata (72.8% for 65 -69 years to 83.4% for ≥ 80 years), and was highest in Azores (84.9%) and Alentejo (83.6%). The most common chronic diseases were hypertension (57.3%), rheumatic disease (51.9%), hypercholesterolemia (49.4%), and diabetes (22.7%). Depression symptoms were frequent (11.8%) and highest in the oldest strata. The mean health-related quality of life (EQ-5D-3L) score was 0.59 ± 0.38. Hospitalization in the previous 12 months was reported by 25.8% of individuals. Overall, 66.6% of older adults were physically inactive. 'Fruit and vegetables dietary pattern' was followed by 85.4% of individuals; however, regional inequalities were found (69% in Azores). Obesity prevalence was 22.3% overall and was highest among Azoreans (33%). Conclusion:The high prevalence of multimorbidity, combined with unhealthy lifestyle behaviours, suggests that the elderly population constitutes a vulnerable group warranting dedicated intervention.

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“…MAB has also been used to characterize Elderly Multidimensional Functioning Autonomy in the largest cross-section observational study ever conducted in Portugal to date. It involved 2,672 elderly subjects, and was called the EPPEP-Estudo do Perfil de Envelhecimento da População Portuguesa, a study on the Ageing Profile of the Portuguese Population (Mota-Pinto et al, 2011). Since the creation in 2006 of the National Net of Continued Integrated Care (Rede Nacional de Cuidados Continuados Integrados-RNCCI), a nationwide network that provides continuous health care, the MAB has been used to characterize the biopsychosocial aspects of the functioning of the in-patients of the Portuguese healthcare system.…”

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