Health and social participation of older people in Europe

Geron - Tập 17 - Trang 33-36 - 2015
Suzan Van der Pas1,2, Henrike Galenkamp
1University of Applied Sciences Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands
2department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Tóm tắt

Older people play an important role in the social participation in our society. However, are these mainly the healthy and active older people that remain active or also those older people with health problems? To what extent does health affect the social participation of older people in Europe?

Tài liệu tham khảo

Brooks PM. (2002). Impact of osteoarthritis on individuals and society: how much disability? Social consequences and health economic implications. Curr Opin Rheumatol, 14:573-577. MOPACT. Determinants of social participation in older people with and without multimorbidity in Europe. MOPACT report: work package Health and Well-being (2015). http://www.mopact.group.shef.ac.uk./ Meer, M.J. van der (2008). The sociospatial diversity in the leisure activities of older people in the Netherlands. Journal of Aging Studies, 22(1), 1-12 Pas, S. van der, for the EPOSA research group. (2014). Impact of clinical osteoarthritis on the social participation of older adults in Europe. Oral presentation at 10th International Congress of the European Union Geriatric Medicine Society (Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 17-19 September, 2014). Vos T, Flaxman AD, Naghavi M, Lozano R, Michaud C, Ezzati M et al. (2012). Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet, 380(9859):2163-96. WHO, World Health Organization. Active ageing. A policy framework. WHO, 2002.