Effectiveness of "Active health promotion in old age" : Results regarding compression of morbidity by target groups in 13.8 years of observation in LUCAS

Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie
U DappW von Renteln-Kruse

Abstract

Healthy ageing as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) is the development and maintenance of functional competence. Unfavourable ageing is described by the term frailty and is characterised by a decline in functional reserves. The frailty process can be influenced in a positive way. Previous interventions concerned mostly hospital patients and residents of nursing homes. In this study we examined the maintenance of functional competence in an urban community setting. The programme "Active health promotion in old age" was carried out by a health advisory team with geriatric expertise for independent persons 60 years and older without disabilities. Its effectiveness was evaluated in the Longitudinal Urban Cohort Ageing Study (LUCAS) over a period of 13.8 years. Survival and disability-free survival were calculated separately for persons with a high level of functional competence (many reserves) and persons with few functional reserves, using Kaplan-Meier curves. Adjustments were made for unequal distribution of age, gender, educational level, chronic diseases and functional status using multivariate Cox regressions. This methodology facilitates the study of interrelationships between mortality and morbidity (compression...Continue Reading

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