Towards the life course approach of healthy aging

This chapter describes a life course approach for understanding later life sustainability, focusing on grip strength as a marker of physical sustainability, and explaining how a life course approach recognizes that muscle strength in later life reflects not only rate of loss in later life, but also the peak attained earlier in life. We present evidence that risk factors operating throughout the life course have an impact on physical sustainability in later life with particular consideration of the effects of body size, socioeconomic position, physical activity, diet, and smoking. We have shown that low birth weight is associated with weaker grip strength across the life course and that there is considerable evidence for developmental influences on ageing skeletal muscle. Finally, a life course approach suggests opportunities for early intervention to promote later life physical sustainability; but optimal strategies and timings for intervention are yet to be identified.

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Life course approach to understanding inequalities in health in later life

Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine ◽

10.1093/med/9780198701590.003.0010 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 69-76 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ruth Bell ◽

Michael Marmot

Keyword(s):

Life Course ◽

Social Functioning ◽

Later Life ◽

Older Age ◽

Cognitive Changes ◽

Healthy Life ◽

Inequalities In Health ◽

Biological Ageing ◽

Life Course Approach ◽

The Life Course

A long and healthy life is universally valued. The starkest inequalities in later life are how many years of life remain at an older age such as 65 years, and how many years of life that remain free from disabilities that impede physical, cognitive, and social functioning to the extent that they limit the sense of valuing one’s life. In this chapter we apply the frame of social determinants of health, using the life course approach to understand inequalities in health in later life. Healthy ageing is patterned by degrees of social advantage. Biological ageing, as revealed by physical and cognitive changes, is slower in people in better socioeconomic circumstances. These inequalities in health in later life need to be understood in terms of current social, economic, environmental conditions of living, as well as previous experiences and living conditions across the life course that affect the biological processes of ageing.

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Using the life course approach to explain the onset and continuity of preventive health-care behaviors: A comparative study across four countries

Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science ◽

10.1080/21639159.2019.1613907 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 30 (1) ◽

pp. 45-59 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Anil Mathur ◽

Preecha Yingwattanakul ◽

Randall Shannon ◽

Euehun Lee ◽

Cristiane Pizzutti

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Comparative Study ◽

Life Course ◽

Preventive Health Care ◽

Preventive Health ◽

Life Course Approach ◽

The Life Course

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THE POWER OF LOOKING AHEAD? A FIXED-EFFECTS MODEL OF FUTURE ASPIRATIONS OVER THE LIFE COURSE AND INCOME

Innovation in Aging ◽

10.1093/geroni/igz038.018 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽

pp. S6-S6

Author(s):

Ioana Sendroiu ◽

Laura Upenieks

Keyword(s):

Life Course ◽

Fixed Effects ◽

Fixed Effects Model ◽

Future Aspirations ◽

Life Trajectories ◽

Life Course Approach ◽

The Face ◽

Different Shapes ◽

The Life Course ◽

The Relationship

Abstract Perceived life trajectories are rooted in structural systems of advantage and disadvantage, but individuals also shape their futures through setting goals and expectations. “Future aspirations” have typically been used in life course research to refer to one’s conception of their chances of success across life domains and can serve as a resource to help individuals persevere in the face of hardship. Taking a life course approach and using three waves of data from the MIDUS study, we utilize hybrid fixed effects models to assess the relationship between future aspirations and income. We find that, net of age, health, and a host of other time-varying factors, more positive future aspirations are indeed related to higher income over time, but that this relationship takes different shapes in different contexts. In particular, in lower quality neighborhoods, higher future aspirations lead to worse economic outcomes over the life course, while in higher quality neighborhoods, higher aspirations are indeed related to higher incomes. We thus argue that aspirations are only helpful in some contexts, and are inherently contextual not just in their sources but also in their effects.

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Reflections on life-course vaccination: the England experience

European Journal of Public Health ◽

10.1093/eurpub/ckz185.210 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽

Author(s):

M Edelstein

Keyword(s):

Life Course ◽

Meningococcal Disease ◽

Age Groups ◽

Disease Group ◽

Life Course Approach ◽

Group B ◽

The Uk ◽

The Right ◽

The Life Course ◽

In Pregnancy

Abstract Since the introduction of the expanded programme on immunization in the 1970s, vaccination has evolved from being an intervention of early infancy to being a programme targeting individuals at all stages of life including birth, infancy, childhood, teenage years, pregnancy and adulthood. The UK has been at the forefront of this lifelong approach to vaccination and has introduced vaccines at all stages of life in its national schedule, including vaccination against hepatitis B at birth, Meningococcal disease group B in infancy, influenza in primary school years, Meningococcal disease groups A, C, W and Y in teenage years, pertussis in pregnancy and shingles in older adults. Based on a range of studies conducted by Public Health England, This session will reflect on some of the challenges brought on by the life course approach in the UK including issues of access in different age groups, choosing the right age and settings for vaccinations, age-specific attitudes to vaccination and subsequent communication strategies, and challenges with monitoring a life-course programme.

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Childhood Polyvictimization and the Life Course: Associations With Depression and Crime

Violence and Victims ◽

10.1891/0886-6708.vv-d-18-00099 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 34 (5) ◽

pp. 770-785

Author(s):

Richard S. Carbonaro

Keyword(s):

Life Course ◽

Criminal Behavior ◽

Negative Outcomes ◽

Multiple Forms ◽

Life Trajectories ◽

Life Course Approach ◽

Seemingly Unrelated Regressions ◽

Different Types ◽

Parental Abuse ◽

The Life Course

Exposure to multiple forms of victimization has been shown to have increasingly negative outcomes, but their unique trajectory-setting effects have been largely unexplored. Using a life course approach, this article examines the life trajectories of child polyvictims. I use a nationwide sample including 3,652 respondents after cleaning and preparation. Seemingly unrelated regressions were used to predict depression and criminal behavior in childhood and adulthood. Results suggest that children who experience multiple forms of parental abuse tend to have life trajectories which grow increasingly worse through the life course. However, life trajectories of children experiencing violence outside the home have less persistent negative outcomes. Researchers and interventions should take differing life trajectories into account when attempting to aid different types of polyvictims.

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