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Response shift in self-rated health after serious health events in old age

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  • Spuling, Svenja M.
  • Wolff, Julia K.
  • Wurm, Susanne

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Although health generally deteriorates with advancing age, how older adults evaluate their health status (i.e., their self-rated health, SRH) remains rather positive. So far, however, little is known about how SRH in old age may change in the face of an abrupt health decline. Because change/stability in SRH may reflect not only change/stability in health but also changes in the meaning people assign to the concept of “health”, response shift effects in SRH for people with and without a serious health event are investigated in the present study in the older general population.

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  • Spuling, Svenja M. & Wolff, Julia K. & Wurm, Susanne, 2017. "Response shift in self-rated health after serious health events in old age," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 192(C), pages 85-93.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:192:y:2017:i:c:p:85-93
    DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.09.026
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