Everyday Health among Older People: A Comparison between Two Countries with Variant Life Conditions-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Everyday Health among Older People: A Comparison between Two Countries with Variant Life Conditions

Published:2017 Issue: Volume:2017 Page:1-8
ISSN:2090-2204
Container-title:Journal of Aging Research
language:en
Short-container-title:Journal of Aging Research

Author:

Fagerström Cecilia¹²^ORCID,Wranker Lena Sandin³,Kabir Zarina Nahar⁴^ORCID,Sternäng Ola⁵⁶

Affiliation:

1. Blekinge Center of Competence, Karlskrona, Sweden

2. Department of Health and Caring Sciences, Linnaeus University, 391 82 Kalmar, Sweden

3. Department of Health Sciences, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

4. Division of Nursing, NVS, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

5. Institute of Gerontology, School of Health and Welfare, Ageing Research Network-Jönköping (ARN-J), Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden

6. Stockholm Centre for Health and Social Change (SCOHOST), Södertörn University, Huddinge, Sweden

Abstract

This study described health factors of importance for everyday health, such as pain, tiredness, and sleeping problems, in a cross-national context. Data for persons 60+ years were obtained from the Poverty and Health in Aging study, Bangladesh, and the Swedish National Study on Aging and Care-Blekinge. The strongest associations with everyday health in Sweden were found for pain and tiredness, while in Bangladesh they were financial status, tiredness, and sleeping problems. As similarities were found regarding the associations of tiredness on everyday health, tiredness may be a universal predictor of everyday health in older adults irrespective of country context.

Funder

Ministry of Health and Social Affairs

Publisher

Hindawi Limited

Subject

Geriatrics and Gerontology

Link

http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/jar/2017/2720942.pdf

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