Analyzing and comparing healthy aging in France and OECD countries based on a new physiological age measure

Le bien-vieillir en France et dans les pays de l’OCDE

Jonathan Sicsic (), Jérôme Ronchetti and Thomas Rapp
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Jérôme Ronchetti: MAGELLAN - Laboratoire de Recherche Magellan - UJML - Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 - Université de Lyon - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) - Lyon

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Abstract: We introduce a new individual measure of healthy aging on a sample of more than 39,000 individuals and compare the results for France with 11 other European countries and the United States. Our healthy aging measure is based on the discrepancy between the calendar age of populations with their estimated physiological age, which corresponds to a measure of age adjusted for the effects of comorbidities and functional health. France is ranked in the lower middle of our healthy aging scale, with the Nordic countries (Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands), Switzerland and Greece being ahead. Economic capital has a strong impact on the estimated physiological age and on healthy aging trajectories. Socioeconomic inequalities are particularly marked in France as well as in Italy and the United States. The generosity of long-term care policies seems to be positively associated with the level of healthy aging of the populations. More work is required to identify the drivers of healthy aging among individuals living in OECD countries.

Keywords: well-being; biological age; aging measure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-06
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Published in Médecine/Sciences, 2023, 39 (6-7), pp.551-557. ⟨10.1051/medsci/2023077⟩

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DOI: 10.1051/medsci/2023077

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