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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Healthy working life expectancy at age 50 for people with and without osteoarthritis in local and national English populations
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Open AccessDemographic, health, physical activity, and workplace factors are associated with lower healthy working life expectancy and life expectancy at age 50
Although retirement ages are rising in the United Kingdom and other countries, the average number of years people in England can expect to spend both healthy and work from age 50 (Healthy Working Life Expectan...
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Open AccessAre Religiosity and Spirituality Related to Self-Reported Health Expectancy? An Analysis of the European Values Survey
Research on religiosity and health has generally focussed on the United States, and outcomes of health or mortality but not both. Using the European Values Survey 2008, we examined cross-sectional associations...
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Open AccessHealthy working life expectancy at age 50 for people with and without osteoarthritis in local and national English populations
Retirement ages are rising in many countries to offset the challenges of population ageing, but osteoarthritis is an age-associated disease that is becoming more prevalent and may limit capacity to work until ...
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Projections of healthy working life expectancy in England to the year 2035
UK state pension age is rising in response to life expectancy gains but population health and job opportunities may not be sufficient to achieve extended working lives1–3. This study aimed to estimate future tren...
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Open AccessThe effects of single and a combination of determinants of anaemia in the very old: results from the TULIPS consortium
Nutritional deficiencies, renal impairment and chronic inflammation are commonly mentioned determinants of anaemia. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of these determinants, singly and in com...
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Open AccessPublisher Correction: A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies multiple longevity genes
A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22613-2
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Open AccessContribution of protein intake and its interaction with physical activity to transitions between disability states and to death in very old adults: the Newcastle 85+ Study
Growth in the number of very old (≥ 85 years) adults will likely lead to increased prevalence of disability. Our aim was to determine the contribution of protein intake, and the interaction between protein int...
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Open AccessExtending Working Lives: A Systematic Review of Healthy Working Life Expectancy at Age 50
Retirement ages for receipt of state/social pensions are rising in many countries in response to population ageing and increasing life expectancy. However, sickness absence and early retirement for health reas...
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Does Religious Activity Distinguish the Mortality Experiences of Older Taiwanese? An Analysis Using Eighteen Years of Follow-Up Data
This paper extends investigation of religiosity and longevity to Taiwan using a 1989 survey: N = 3849, aged 60+, with 18 years of follow-up. Religious activity is measured as worship and performance of rituals. A...
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An Analysis of Macro-level Determinants of Geographic Disparities in Health Expectancies
With growing health expectancy inequalities across countries in the world, understanding mechanisms behind these geographic variations has become one of the central policy and research questions. This chapter ...
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Microsimulation of Health Expectancies, Life Course Health, and Health Policy Outcomes
Active life expectancy measures life expectancy and the proportions of remaining life with and without disease or disability. Microsimulation, a useful tool for life course research, estimates active life expe...
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Forecasting Health Expectancy – What the Future Might Hold
Planning health and social care for ageing populations requires accurate forecasts of future need based upon reliable estimates of disease and disability burden, aetiology and progression, and whether years of...
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Conclusions and Future Directions
This collection of research on health expectancy from the REVES network refreshes the knowledge gained since the first REVES book, Determining Health Expectancies, published in 2003. As well as presenting substan...
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Trends in Health Expectancies
This chapter reviews the emergence of the major theories on change over time in population health status, i.e., compression and expansion of morbidity as well as dynamic equilibrium between morbidity and longe...
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Open AccessA meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies multiple longevity genes
Human longevity is heritable, but genome-wide association (GWA) studies have had limited success. Here, we perform two meta-analyses of GWA studies of a rigorous longevity phenotype definition including 11,262...
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Open AccessPrevalence and determinants of low protein intake in very old adults: insights from the Newcastle 85+ Study
The very old (aged ≥ 85 years), fastest growing age group in most western societies, are at especially high risk of muscle mass and strength loss. The amount, sources and timing of protein intake may play impo...
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Open AccessMODEM: A comprehensive approach to modelling outcome and costs impacts of interventions for dementia. Protocol paper
The MODEM project (A comprehensive approach to MODelling outcome and costs impacts of interventions for DEMentia) explores how changes in arrangements for the future treatment and care of people living with demen...
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International Comparisons of Disability Prevalence Estimates: Impact of Accounting or Not Accounting for the Institutionalized Population
Population estimates of disability prevalence are mostly based on population surveys designed to cover a representative sample of the population living in private households; this excludes the relatively small...
