Maintaining health and quality of life and decreasing the number of years lived with
disabilities in old age are among the main challenges of aging societies worldwide. This …

This review examines sex differences in health and survival, with a focus on the Nordic
countries. There is a remarkable discrepancy between the health and survival of the sexes …

Previous studies assessing protective effects of physical activity on depression have had
conflicting results; one recent study argued that excluding disabled subjects attenuated any …

Context: Reference ranges are essential for partitioning testosterone levels into low or
normal and making the diagnosis of androgen deficiency. We established reference ranges …

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to determine the association between driving
cessation and depressive symptoms among older drivers. Previous efforts in this area have …

This paper examines the effect of social engagement on disability among community-
dwelling older adults in 1982–1991. Data were collected from the New Haven, Connecticut …

Objectives. We analyzed the role of sociodemographic factors, chronic-disease risk factors,
and health conditions in explaining gender differences in disability among senior citizens …

This study examined relative hazards for mortality and functional limitations according to
poor self-ratings of health using prospective data from the NHANES I Epidemiologic Follow …

PURPOSE: To determine the association between a previously validated frailty phenotype
and the development of new-onset dependence in activities of daily living, independent of …

We examined the influence of individual views of aging on health changes in later life. We
hypothesized that aging-related cognitions affect health changes irrespective of control …