Population ageing in Europe and Asia: Beyond traditional perspectives

Balachandran, Arun

doi:10.33612/diss.135497884

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“…However, in other cases, healthspan and lifespan are diverging, with potential to disrupt healthcare systems and economies 3,8,9 . The current toolkit available to demographers and public health planners allows differentiation of populations with more and less successful aging only in terms of completed lifespans or healthspans [10][11][12] . These metrics are effective in summarizing differences between populations accumulated across the full life course.…”

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Pace of Aging in older adults matters for healthspan and lifespan

Balachandran,

Pei,

Beard

et al. 2024

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As societies age, policy makers need tools to understand how demographic aging will affect population health and to develop programs to increase healthspan. The current metrics used for policy analysis do not distinguish differences caused by early-life factors, such as prenatal care and nutrition, from those caused by ongoing changes in peoples bodies due to aging. Here we introduce an adapted Pace of Aging method designed to quantify differences between individuals and populations in the speed of aging-related health declines. The adapted Pace of Aging method, implemented in data from N=13,626 older adults in the US Health and Retirement Study, integrates longitudinal data on blood biomarkers, physical measurements, and functional tests. It reveals stark differences in rates of aging between population subgroups and demonstrates strong and consistent prospective associations with incident morbidity, disability, and mortality. Pace of Aging can advance the population science of healthy longevity.

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