Lifetime cumulative adversity and physical health deterioration in old age: Evidence from a fourteen-year longitudinal study

Levinsky, Michal; Schiff, Miriam

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114407

Cited by 10 publications

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“…To our knowledge, the interactions between childhood adversities and adulthood adversities have not been well studied in previous studies, although some noted the possibly cumulative health effects of adversities occurring at different ages. 38 One novel and interesting finding of our study is that, although the adulthood adversity-CVD association was weaker than the childhood adversity-CVD association, adulthood adversity magnified the strength of association between childhood adversities and CVD risk. We found three lines of evidence for the existence of interaction between childhood and adulthood adversities in our study.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 58%

Adversities in childhood and young adulthood and incident cardiovascular diseases: a prospective cohort study

Zou,

Zhao,

Feng

et al. 2024

eClinicalMedicine

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 58%

Adversities in childhood and young adulthood and incident cardiovascular diseases: a prospective cohort study

Zou,

Zhao,

Feng

et al. 2024

eClinicalMedicine

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“…A previous study also showed that high social support may attenuate social inequalities in health at older ages [ 69 ]. Literature, however, suggests that this is probably a very complex relationship between several aspects that may model the impact of life course vulnerabilities on health once it could be moderated by several biopsychosocial factors [ 70 ]. Higher educational and occupational, as well as cognitive and non-cognitive physical or leisure time activities, levels and other beneficial societal changes may underlie a decrease in age-associated psychiatric problems prevalence and incidence in high-income countries [ 71 , 72 ].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Influence of Social Adversity on Perceived Health Status and Depressive Symptoms among Portuguese Older People

Sampaio¹,

Henriques

Ramos

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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This study aims to investigate how exposure to poverty, food insecurity, and abuse at older ages relates to health outcomes. A questionnaire collecting data on sociodemographic and economic characteristics, health status, depressive symptoms, food insecurity, and abuse was administered to a sample of 677 older adults. Logistic regression was used to quantify the association of poverty, food insecurity, and abuse with perceived health status and depressive symptoms. If the older person only reported experiences of abuse, it was more likely to report the presence of depressive symptoms, even after adjustment for covariates. If it was only reported the experience of food insecurity, it was more likely to report a worse health status. Older people exposed to at least two factors of vulnerability were significantly more likely to report (very) poor perceived health status (OR: 7.11, 95% CI: 2.77–18.25) and the presence of relevant depressive symptoms (OR: 4.34; 95% CI: 2.04–9.22). Thus, the combined effect of vulnerabilities was significantly associated with worse health among older people. Public health policies to mitigate these adverse exposures should be developed to promote health and well-being in this population.

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“…This may, in particular, reduce their chances of re-entering the labor market after losing their jobs (39,40), thus increasing the likelihood for long-term unemployment. Lastly, since health tends to deteriorate with age (41), older people are more likely to lose employment due to health reasons. All in all, it is expected that older people are generally more likely to receive a benefit than less senior people.…”

Section: Agementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Age groups were operationalized using age on January 1st in 2012, which was inferred from the registered age in the person register. The following three age groups were constructed: young [25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34], middle [35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49] and old [50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69]. Lastly, observations of individuals were censored if they were younger or older than the outer range of their age group.…”

Section: Independent Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Intersectionality and Benefit Receipt: The Interplay between Education, Gender, Age and Migration Background

Slabbekoorn¹,

Maas²,

Kern³

et al. 2023

Preprint

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This study examines differences in benefit receipt using an intersectional approach. Intersectionality theory highlights the importance of the interplay of multiple social dimensions. Therefore, this article examines how different combinations of three demographic variables plus education buffer or amplify benefit receipt and thereby create relatively advantaged and disadvantaged groups. Administrative data were used, sourced from Dutch registers, which provide accurate and detailed information about benefit receipt on the entire Dutch population, including segments that are small and harder to reach. Multilevel Analyses of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA) are performed to assess which intersectional groups are relatively advantaged or disadvantaged with respect to benefit receipt. Intersectional group differences are more pronounced for social assistance than for unemployment insurance. Complex combinations of education, gender, age and migration background are required to better understand differences in benefit receipt, especially for unemployment insurance.

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Lifetime cumulative adversity and physical health deterioration in old age: Evidence from a fourteen-year longitudinal study

Cited by 10 publications

References 54 publications

Adversities in childhood and young adulthood and incident cardiovascular diseases: a prospective cohort study

Adversities in childhood and young adulthood and incident cardiovascular diseases: a prospective cohort study

Influence of Social Adversity on Perceived Health Status and Depressive Symptoms among Portuguese Older People

Intersectionality and Benefit Receipt: The Interplay between Education, Gender, Age and Migration Background

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