Subjective age in active elderly: A comparative study with chonological age, sociodemographic aspects and self-rated health

• Autor(a) principal: Teixeira, Adriane Ribeiro
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Cardoso, Mariana de Medeiros, Olchik, Maira Rozenfeld
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: PAJAR - Pan American Journal of Aging Research
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/pajar/article/view/39344
• topic: aged; aging; anciano; envejecimiento; idoso; envelhecimento

Aims: analyze the subjective age of active elderly people, participating in an open university program and verify the association with sociodemographic and self-perceived health and well-being variables.Methods: cross-sectional, retorspective and observational study. Data obtained from an interview conducted at the time of enrolling the elderly in a university program, in which information on socio-demographic, health and education data is collected. Regarding health, well-being, memory and physical condition, the elderly should give a self-assessment score. Regarding subjective age, the question was: “How old do you feel you are?”. The variables were described as mean and standard deviation with Student’s t-tests and Spearman’s correlation coefficient.Results: data from 395 elderly people were analyzed, 359 (90.9%) women. The chronological age varied between 60 and 96 years, with a mean chronological age of 71.5 ± 6.8 years. The mean subjective age was 57.2 ± 14.0 years, with a significant difference between them (p <0.001). There was a correlation only between subjective age and perceived health (rs = -0.149; p = 0.003).Conclusions: the data showed that in the group of active elderly people evaluated, there was a difference between chronological age and subjective age, with the subjective age being significantly lower. There was an association between perceived health and subjective age.