A5032168583- Health disparities and outcomes
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Retirement, Disability, and Employment
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- Health and Wellbeing Research
- Global Health Care Issues
- Physical Activity and Health
- Occupational and environmental lung diseases
- Health and Well-being Studies
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
- Genomics and Rare Diseases
- Sociology and Education Studies
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders
- Cancer Risks and Factors
- Body Composition Measurement Techniques
ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
2018-2024
University of Geneva
2016-2023
FORS – Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences
2016-2022
NCCR Chemical Biology - Visualisation and Control of Biological Processes Using Chemistry
2016-2018
Zurich University of the Arts
2010
Significance There is increasing evidence that socioeconomic conditions early in life have an impact on cognitive functioning later life. Based the large longitudinal sample from SHARE we find a clear pattern old age, related to childhood conditions: Those more affluent households show higher levels of fluid intelligence age and experience stronger decline over time executive functions. The latter phenomenon not often documented. Although modifications with aging are inevitable, course...
Abstract Objectives This article aimed to assess associations of childhood socioeconomic conditions (CSC) with the risk frailty in old age and whether adulthood (ASC) influence this association. Methods Data from 21,185 individuals aged 50 years older included longitudinal Survey Health, Ageing, Retirement Europe were used. Frailty was operationalized as a sum presenting weakness, shrinking, exhaustion, slowness, or low activity. Confounder-adjusted multilevel logistic regression models used...
socioeconomic circumstances (SEC) during a person's lifespan influence wide range of health outcomes. However, solid evidence the association early- and adult-life SEC with trajectories in ageing is still lacking. This study assessed whether early-life are associated muscle strength later life-a biomarker health-and this relationship caused by behaviours.we used data from Survey Health Ageing Retirement Europe, 12-year population-based cohort repeated measurement six waves (2004-15)...
<b><i>Background:</i></b> Recently, Paggi et al. [Gerontology 2016;62:450-458] for the very first time showed in a cross-sectional sample of 259 adults aged 18-81 years that relation physical health to psychological well-being was mediated via frequency leisure activity participation. <b><i>Objective:</i></b> To extend this framework, we followed theories on successful aging and vulnerability propose add differential perspective predicting...
We observed a lack of population-based longitudinal research examining the association disadvantaged childhood socioeconomic circumstances (CSC) and disability [activities daily living (ADL) instrumental activities (IADL)] in older age, whether attainments adulthood can compensate for poor start life.Data on 24 440 persons aged 50-96 14 European countries (Survey Health, Ageing Retirement Europe) were used to measure associations between CSC limitations with ADL IADL, using mixed-effects...
Abstract Objectives This study aimed to assess whether cumulative disadvantage in childhood misfortune and adult-life socioeconomic conditions influence the risk of frailty old age welfare regimes these associations. Method Data from 23,358 participants aged 50 years older included longitudinal SHARE survey were used. Frailty was operationalized according Fried’s phenotype as presenting either weakness, shrinking, exhaustion, slowness, or low activity. Confounder-adjusted mixed-effects...
The present study set out to investigate the relation of obesity performance in verbal abilities, processing speed, and cognitive flexibility its interplay with key correlates reserve a large sample older adults.A total 2,812 adults served as for study. Psychometric tests on were administered. In addition, individuals interviewed their weight height (to calculate body mass index; BMI), educational attainment, occupation, engaging different activities throughout adulthood.Obesity (BMI ≥30)...
This study aimed to examine the cumulative disadvantage of different forms childhood misfortune and adult-life socioeconomic conditions (SEC) with regard trajectories levels self-rated health in old age whether these associations differed between welfare regimes (Scandinavian, Bismarckian, Southern European, Eastern European). The included 24,004 respondents aged 50-96 from longitudinal SHARE survey. Childhood SEC, adverse experiences, experiences. Adult-life SEC consisted education, main...
This article combines an inter- and intra-cohort perspective to study economic vulnerability in old age. The theoretical background is given through the combination of a social stratification framework institutional emphasizing life course policies. At macro level, increase overall education levels implementation pension system were driving forces strong decrease age poverty over last three decades. individual pathway from low early hardship after retirement most prominent, corresponding...
The role of timing retirement on cognitive functioning in old age is inconclusive so far. Therefore, the present study set out to investigate association with performance and its interplay key correlates reserve a large sample older adults.Two thousand two hundred sixty three adults served as for study. Different psychometric tests (Trail Making Test part A (TMT A), Trail B B), Mill Hill) were administered. In addition, individuals interviewed their retirement, occupation, educational...
Welfare regimes in Europe modify individuals' socioeconomic trajectories over their life-course, and, ultimately, the link between circumstances (SECs) and health. This paper aimed to assess whether associations life-course SECs (early-life, young adult-life, middle-age old-age) risk of poor self-rated health (SRH) old age are modified by welfare (Scandinavian [SC], Bismarckian [BM], Southern European [SE], Eastern [EE]).We used data from longitudinal SHARE survey. Early-life consisted four...
Objective: The adverse effects of anxiety on cognition are widely recognized. According to Attentional Control Theory, worry (i.e. facet cognitive anxiety) is the component that responsible for these effects, and working memory capacity (WMC) plays an important role in regulating them. Despite increasing importance this problem with aging, little known about how mechanisms interact old age. In study, we explored distinct contributions somatic components neuropsychological performance,...
<title>Abstract</title> Working life is associated with lifestyle, screening uptake, and occupational health risks that may explain differences in cancer onset. To better understand the association between working risk, we need to account for entire employment history. We investigated whether lifetime trajectories are risk. used data from 6,809 women 5,716 men, average age 70 years, Survey of Health, Ageing, Retirement Europe. Employment history 16 65 was collected retrospectively using a...
Working life is associated with lifestyle, screening uptake, and occupational health risks that may explain differences in cancer onset. To better understand the association between working risk, we need to account for entire employment history. We investigated whether lifetime trajectories are risk. used data from 6809 women 5716 men, average age 70 years, Survey of Health, Ageing, Retirement Europe. Employment history 16 65 was collected retrospectively using a calendar were constructed...
We investigated the mediating role of leisure activity engagement as marker cognitive reserve in relation between neighborhood socio-economic position (SEP) and decline over 6 years.The study analyzed longitudinal data from 897 older adults who participated two waves (2011 2017) Vivre-Leben-Vivere (VLV) survey Switzerland (M = 74.33 years first wave). Trail Making Test parts A B were administered both waves. Leisure was assessed during interviews. Neighborhood SEP derived Swiss Index...
Abstract Background A non-negligible share of workers is affected by adverse health at the end their careers. While many them drop out labor force, others remain, prompting question how various indicators interact to influence these different pathways. Therefore, we investigate effect multidimensional patterns on force participation among older workers. Methods We used six-year-longitudinal data from 5007 (Mean age: 55.8 years; 55.9 % female) Survey Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe....