Frailty and Self-Assessment Health: Similitude and Divergence over the adult life

Carine Milcent ()
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Carine Milcent: PSE - Paris School of Economics - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - ENPC - École nationale des ponts et chaussées - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement, PJSE - Paris Jourdan Sciences Economiques - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - ENPC - École nationale des ponts et chaussées - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement

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Abstract: This article compares physical frailty and SAH as health indicators in younger and older adults along economic, social, lifestyle, feelings/emotions, and medical history dimensions. The data used comes from the 2012 French survey ESPS (Santé, Soins et Assurance) over the adult life of individuals aged 15 to over 90 years old. We observe similarities in the effect of each dimension taken in isolation between the two indicators. However, substantial divergence emerges. Following the SAH, a shift in responses from the "good" and "bad" categories to the "fair" category is observed for attributes in the five dimensions studied. This carry-over effect is not or only slightly observed for the frailty indicator. The effect of these dimensions on the SAH is lower among older adults. For biological health, the impact remains relatively constant up to a threshold age of 65, after which the effect decreases. Finally, using a Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO) model, we show that the explanatory power of these five dimensions is more critical for self-assessed health (about 25%) than for biological health (about 15%).

Keywords: Physical frailty; Self-assessment health SAH; Adult life; Subjective bias (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-01-28
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