Serious health events and their impact on changes in subjective health and life satisfaction: the role of age and a positive view on ageing

Wurm, Susanne; Tomasik, Martin J.; Tesch-Römer, Clemens

doi:10.1007/s10433-008-0077-5

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“…First, disability results in the need for severe (and sometimes permanent) lifestyle modifications that directly influence relatedness and independence, such as maintenance of employment and social relations and long-term consequences of pain and inability to perform ADL (e.g., cooking, bathing; Verbrugge & Jette, 1994;Wurm et al, 2008). In a similar vein, disability may differentially disrupt daily living habits or routines.…”

Section: Implications Of Disability Across the Adult Life Spanmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Effect of Disability Onset Across the Adult Life Span

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Wiest

2016

The Journals of Gerontology: Series B

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Objective: To examine whether disability has an age-differential effect on life satisfaction across the adult life span and factors that promote maintenance of life satisfaction. Method: We applied multilevel models to 4,372 (M age = 60, SD = 14; 47% women) individuals from the German SocioEconomic Panel Study who experienced disability over the course of the study. Results: Disability resulted in substantial and sustained declines in life satisfaction. More important, people who became disabled in young adulthood (aged 18-39 years) and old age (aged 65 and older) reported stronger declines in life satisfaction in the year within disability and were less likely to adapt in the years thereafter. Conversely, those who experienced disability in midlife (aged 40-64 years) were less likely to show declines in the year within disability and were more likely to adapt following disability. Factors associated with maintaining life satisfaction were less severe disability and higher levels of social participation. Discussion: Our findings illustrate that disability shapes developmental trajectories of life satisfaction differently depending on its age of onset. Our discussion focuses on possible reasons why disability has differential effects on life satisfaction across the adult life span as well as factors associated with poorer outcomes following disability.

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Section: Implications Of Disability Across the Adult Life Spanmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Effect of Disability Onset Across the Adult Life Span

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Wiest

2016

The Journals of Gerontology: Series B

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“…There is also evidence that QOL and LS may improve with age, and that age can buffer the negative impact of a serious healthevent, such as acquiring a severe vision-impairment (Wurm et al 2008). However, what is not known is specifically, why impaired vision detracts from QOL, how increasing age, in combination with impaired vision, may affect QOL and LS and what specific factors will be identified by those with and without impaired vision that have positive and negative impacts on QOL.…”

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Life satisfaction and quality of life of older New Zealanders with and without impaired vision: a descriptive, comparative study

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2008

Eur J Ageing

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A study involving older New Zealanders (aged 65?) explored levels of life satisfaction reported by groups with and without impaired vision as well as factors contributing to and detracting from quality of life (QOL). Those with impaired vision (n = 135) had a visual acuity of 6/24 (i.e., 20/80) or worse in the better eye with corrective lenses, or a field of vision not greater than 20°at its widest diameter and had a mean age of 82.3 (SD = 6.76). Those with no significant impairment of vision (n = 425) were able read newsprint and legally drive and had a mean age of 74 (SD = 6.49). Overall, those with impaired vision reported a significantly lower level of life satisfaction in comparison to their sighted peers. There was a significant interaction effect of vision status and age, such that those with impaired vision aged 85? reported life satisfaction scores higher than those reported by their sighted peers. Family and friends emerged as most important contributors to QOL for the vision-impaired group, where good health was the primary contributor to those with sight. Detractors to QOL reported by those with impaired vision included poor vision, inability to drive and poor health. Those with no significant impairment of vision reported poor health, physical impairment and poor finances detracted from QOL. Results could enable ageing and rehabilitation service providers to design rehabilitation programmes addressing areas reported to be most important to older adults with and without impaired vision.

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“…Wurm et al, 2007;Böhm et al, 2009;Wurm et al, 2010;Schöllgen et al, 2010;Schöllgen et al, 2012;Schüz et al, 2011), subjective well-being and loneliness (e.g. Westerhof et al, 2006;Wurm et al, 2008;Merz et al, 2010;Wiest et al, 2011;Tesch-Römer et al, 2012), family relations, grandparenthood and social networks (e.g. Hoff, 2007;Baykara-Krumme, 2008;Huxhold et al, 2012), social participation and voluntary work (e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%