Associations Between Satisfaction With Aging and Health and Well-being Outcomes Among Older US Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Researchers and policy makers are expanding the focus from risk factors of disease to seek potentially modifiable health factors that enhance people's health and well-being. Understanding if and to what degree aging satisfaction (one's beliefs about their own aging) is associated with a range of health and well-being outcomes aligns with the interests of older adults, researchers, health systems, and politicians.

Objectives

To evaluate associations between changes in aging satisfaction and 35 subsequent health and well-being outcomes.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study used data from the Health and Retirement Study, a national, diverse, and longitudinal sample of 13 752 US adults older than 50 years, to evaluate if changes in aging satisfac

SUBMITTER: Nakamura JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8829664 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature