Unlocking the Secrets of Healthy Ageing: A Comprehensive Guide to Thriving in Later Years
Living longer doesn't always mean ageing well. Thanks to medical advancements, people can live longer, even with multiple ailments, but the key to thriving in later years lies in understanding what makes one age healthily. Researchers have identified thirteen factors that influence healthy ageing and have constructed a healthy ageing score. This score, ranging from 0 to 16, includes eight crucial health domains: physical functioning, cognitive function, balance and falls, overall health, mental health, quality of life, sleep, and social connections. A higher score indicates a healthier ageing profile, providing a roadmap for individuals to follow to ensure they not only live longer but live better.
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Development of a composite healthy ageing score: evidence from middle-to-older aged Australians
Published in Health Promotion International, Eme Eseme John et al.
Summary
We developed and validated a composite healthy ageing score (HAS) to address the absence of a definitive composite score comprising multiple health domains that measure healthy ageing in epidemiology. The HAS is developed from 13 health domains reported to influence healthy ageing. Data to measure these domains was extracted from the 45 and Up Study baseline. We applied best practices for scale validation and development. Physical functioning, cognitive function, mental health, sleep, quality of life, balance, social connections and overall health were retained. Functional capacity and resilience were uncovered as underlying latent structures. The HAS ranges from 0 to 16 with higher scores indicating a better health profile. This research contributes a comprehensive measuring tool, HAS, It enables examination and comparison of individual or collective health profiles and the investigation of the factors that influence their chances of living healthy for longer.
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