Subjective social status and functional decline in older adults

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 693-699

  Chen, Bonnie ^a   Covinsky, Kenneth E ^a,b   Cenzer, Irena Stijacic ^a   Adler, Nancy ^c   Williams, Brie A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

determinants of health; functional decline; geriatrics; health disparities; socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

ADL DISABILITY; ADULT; AGED; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DECLINE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL MOBILITY; REVIEW; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL STATUS; SUBJECTIVE SOCIAL STATUS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGING; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILITY LIMITATION; RISK FACTORS; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 84862645576     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-011-1963-7     Document Type: Review

References (39)

1. SL Isaacs SA Schroeder 2004 Class-the ignored determinant of the nation's health N Engl J Med 351 11 1137 1142 15356313 10.1056/NEJMsb040329 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD2cXnsVSrtLY%3D
2. E Backlund PD Sorlie NJ Johnson 1996 The shape of the relationship between income and mortality in the United States. Evidence from the National Longitudinal Mortality Study Ann Epidemiol 6 1 12 20 8680619 10.1016/1047-2797(95)00090-9 1:STN:280:DyaK283osVSjtA%3D%3D discussion 21-2
3. M Marmot 2005 Social determinants of health inequalities Lancet 365 9464 1099 1104 15781105
4. AE Kunst F Groenhof JP Mackenbach EW Health 1998 Occupational class and cause specific mortality in middle aged men in 11 European countries: comparison of population based studies. EU Working Group on Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health BMJ 316 7145 1636 1642 9603745 10.1136/bmj.316.7145.1636 1:STN:280:DyaK1c3mslWmtg%3D%3D
5. PM Lantz JS House JM Lepkowski DR Williams RP Mero J Chen 1998 Socioeconomic factors, health behaviors, and mortality: results from a nationally representative prospective study of US adults JAMA 279 21 1703 1708 9624022 10.1001/jama.279.21.1703 1:STN:280:DyaK1c3osFGjsQ%3D%3D
6. N Krieger DR Williams NE Moss 1997 Measuring social class in US public health research: concepts, methodologies, and guidelines Annu Rev Public Health 18 341 378 9143723 10.1146/annurev.publhealth.18.1.341 1:STN:280: DyaK2s3ovVOksA%3D%3D Review
7. BP Kennedy I Kawachi R Glass D Prothrow-Stith 1998 Income distribution, socioeconomic status, and self rated health in the United States: multilevel analysis BMJ 317 7163 917 921 9756809 10.1136/bmj.317.7163.917 1:STN:280:DyaK1cvjslahtw%3D%3D
8. PA Braveman C Cubbin S Egerter S Chideya KS Marchi M Metzler, et al. 2005 Socioeconomic status in health research: one size does not fit all JAMA 294 22 2879 2888 16352796 10.1001/jama.294.22.2879 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD2MXhtlWrtb%2FP
9. D Operario NE Adler DR Williams 2004 Subjective Social status: Reliability and Predictive Utility for Global Health Psychol Health 19 237 246 10.1080/08870440310001638098
10. A Singh-Manoux MG Marmot NE Adler 2005 Does subjective social status predict health and change in health status better than objective status? Psychosom Med 67 6 855 861 16314589 10.1097/01.psy.0000188434.52941.a0
11. A Singh-Manoux NE Adler MG Marmot 2003 Subjective social status: its determinants and its association with measures of ill-health in the Whitehall II study Soc Sci Med 56 6 1321 1333 12600368 10.1016/S0277-9536(02)00131-4
12. P Hu NE Adler N Goldman M Weinstein TE Seeman 2005 Relationship between subjective social status and measures of health in older Taiwanese persons J Am Geriatr Soc 53 3 483 488 15743294 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2005.53169.x
13. Miyakawa M, Magnusson Hanson LL, Theorell T, Westerlund H. Subjective social status: its determinants and association with health in the Swedish working population (the SLOSH study). Eur J Public Health. 2011
14. JM Ostrove NE Adler M Kuppermann AE Washington 2000 Objective and subjective assessments of socioeconomic status and their relationship to self-rated health in an ethnically diverse sample of pregnant women Health Psychol 19 6 613 618 11129365 10.1037/0278-6133.19.6.613 1:STN:280: DC%2BD3M7ivVKmug%3D%3D
15. Wilkinson RG, et al. Health, hierarchy, and social anxiety. In: Adler NE, Marmot M, McEwen B, eds. Socioeconomic Status and Health in Industrial Nations: Social, Psychological, and Biologic Pathways. New York: New York Academy of Science; 1999:48-63.
16. CE Wright A Steptoe 2005 Subjective socioeconomic position, gender and cortisol responses to waking in an elderly population Psychoneuroendocrinology 30 6 582 590 15808928 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2005.01.007 1:CAS:528: DC%2BD2MXivF2jtLc%3D
17. NE Adler ES Epel G Castellazzo JR Ickovics 2000 Relationship of subjective and objective social status with psychological and physiological functioning: preliminary data in healthy white women Health Psychol 19 6 586 592 11129362 10.1037/0278-6133.19.6.586 1:STN:280:DC%2BD3M7ivVKmtw%3D%3D
18. N Adler A Singh-Manoux J Schwartz J Stewart K Matthews MG Marmot 2008 Social status and health: a comparison of British civil servants in Whitehall-II with European- and African-Americans in CARDIA Soc Sci Med 66 5 1034 1045 18180089 10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.11.031
19. P Demakakos J Nazroo E Breeze M Marmot 2008 Socioeconomic status and health: the role of subjective social status Soc Sci Med 67 2 330 340 18440111 10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.03.038
20. R Hebert 1997 Functional decline in old age CMAJ 157 8 1037 1045 9347774 1:STN:280:DyaK1c%2FgslCgsg%3D%3D
21. EC Carey KE Covinsky LY Lui C Eng LP Sands LC Walter 2008 Prediction of mortality in community-living frail elderly people with long-term care needs J Am Geriatr Soc 56 1 68 75 18031487 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2007.01496.x
22. JR Lunney J Lynn DJ Foley S Lipson JM Guralnik 2003 Patterns of functional decline at the end of life JAMA 289 18 2387 2392 12746362 10.1001/jama.289.18.2387
23. TE Murphy L Han HG Allore PN Peduzzi TM Gill H Lin 2011 Treatment of death in the analysis of longitudinal studies of gerontological outcomes J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 66 1 109 114 21030467 10.1093/gerona/glq188 1:STN:280:DC%2BC3M%2FmslKiuw%3D%3D
24. RAND HRS Data Documentation, Version K. Available at: http://hrsonline.isr.umich.edu/modules/meta/rand/randhrsk/randhrsk.pdf. Last accessed December 5, 2011.
25. JH Abramson R Gofin J Habib H Pridan J Gofin 1982 Indicators of social class. A comparative appraisal of measures for use in epidemiological studies Soc Sci Med 16 20 1739 1746 7178920 10.1016/0277-9536(82)90267-2 1:STN:280:DyaL3s%2FptlWlsg%3D%3D
26. JW Lynch GA Kaplan JT Salonen 1997 Why do poor people behave poorly? Variation in adult health behaviours and psychosocial characteristics by stages of the socioeconomic lifecourse Soc Sci Med 44 6 809 819 9080564 10.1016/S0277-9536(96)00191-8 1:STN:280:DyaK2s3jsFCntw%3D%3D
27. A Singh-Manoux JE Ferrie T Chandola M Marmot 2004 Socioeconomic trajectories across the life course and health outcomes in midlife: evidence for the accumulation hypothesis? Int J Epidemiol 33 5 1072 1079 15256527 10.1093/ije/dyh224
28. GD Smith C Hart D Blane C Gillis V Hawthorne 1997 Lifetime socioeconomic position and mortality: prospective observational study BMJ 314 7080 547 552 9055712 10.1136/bmj.314.7080.547 1:STN:280:DyaK2s3gvVOksg%3D%3D
29. C Power S Matthews O Manor 1998 Inequalities in self-rated health: explanations from different stages of life Lancet 351 9108 1009 1014 9546506 10.1016/S0140-6736(97)11082-0 1:STN:280:DyaK1c3gs1GrsA%3D%3D
30. M Beckett 2000 Converging health inequalities in later life-an artifact of mortality selection J Health Soc Behav 41 1 106 119 10750325 10.2307/2676363 1:STN:280:DC%2BD3c3htl2juw%3D%3D
31. GA Kaplan TE Seeman RD Cohen LP Knudsen J Guralnik 1987 Mortality among the elderly in the Alameda County Study: behavioral and demographic risk factors Am J Public Health 77 3 307 312 3812836 10.2105/AJPH.77.3.307 1:STN:280:DyaL2s7isFChtg%3D%3D
32. JS House PM Lantz P Herd 2005 Continuity and change in the social stratification of aging and health over the life course: evidence from a nationally representative longitudinal study from 1986 to 2001/2002 (Americans' Changing Lives Study) J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 60 Spec No 2 15 26 16251586 10.1093/geronb/60.Special-Issue-2.S15 Review
33. RT Anderson P Sorlie E Backlund N Johnson GA Kaplan 1997 Mortality effects of community socioeconomic status Epidemiology 8 42 47 9116094 10.1097/00001648-199701000-00007 1:STN:280:DyaK2s7jtVKmsA%3D%3D
34. KE Pickett M Pearl 2001 Multilevel analyses of neighbourhood socioeconomic context and health outcomes: a critical review J Epidemiol Community Health 55 111 122 11154250 10.1136/jech.55.2.111 1:STN:280: DC%2BD3M7jtlKhtg%3D%3D
35. SA Robert 1999 Socioeconomic position and health: the independent contribution of community context Annu Rev Sociol 25 489 516 10.1146/annurev.soc.25.1.489
36. IH Yen SL Syme 1999 The social environment and health: a discussion of the epidemiologic literature Annu Rev Public Health 20 287 308 10352860 10.1146/annurev.publhealth.20.1.287 1:STN:280:DyaK1M3otFWhtA%3D%3D Review
37. SJ Lee SY Moody-Ayers CS Landefeld, et al. 2007 The relationship between self-rated health and mortality in older black and white Americans J Am Geriatr Soc 55 10 1624 1629 17697102 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2007.01360.x
38. JM Guralnik EM Simonsick L Ferrucci, et al. 1994 A short physical performance battery assessing lower extremity function: association with self-reported disability and prediction of mortality and nursing home admission J Gerontol 49 2 M85 M94 8126356 1:STN:280:DyaK2c7nt1aitw%3D%3D
39. DB Reuben AL Siu S Kimpau 1992 The predictive validity of self-report and performance-based measures of function and health J Gerontol 47 4 M106 M110 1624692 1:STN:280:DyaK38zisFemtQ%3D%3D