Data Resource Profile: The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)
Axel Börsch-Supan,Martina Brandt,Christian Hunkler,Thorsten Kneip,Julie M. Korbmacher,Frederic Malter,Barbara Schaan,Stephanie Stuck,Sabrina Zuber +8 more
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The panel design that grasps the dynamic character of the ageing process, its multidisciplinary approach that delivers the full picture of individual and societal ageing, and its cross-nationally ex-ante harmonized design that permits international comparisons of health, economic and social outcomes in Europe and the USA.Abstract:
SHARE is a unique panel database of micro data on health, socio-economic status and social and family networks covering most of the European Union and Israel. To date, SHARE has collected three panel waves (2004, 2006, 2010) of current living circumstances and retrospective life histories (2008, SHARELIFE); 6 additional waves are planned until 2024. The more than 150 000 interviews give a broad picture of life after the age of 50 years, measuring physical and mental health, economic and non-economic activities, income and wealth, transfers of time and money within and outside the family as well as life satisfaction and well-being. The data are available to the scientific community free of charge at www.share-project.org after registration. SHARE is harmonized with the US Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) and has become a role model for several ageing surveys worldwide. SHARE's scientific power is based on its panel design that grasps the dynamic character of the ageing process, its multidisciplinary approach that delivers the full picture of individual and societal ageing, and its cross-nationally ex-ante harmonized design that permits international comparisons of health, economic and social outcomes in Europe and the USA.read more
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Interpretation of the evidence for the efficacy and safety of statin therapy.
Rory Collins,Christina Reith,Jonathan Emberson,Jane Armitage,Colin Baigent,Lisa Blackwell,Roger S. Blumenthal,John Danesh,George Davey Smith,David L. DeMets,Stephen J. W. Evans,Malcolm Law,Stephen MacMahon,Seth S. Martin,Bruce Neal,Neil R Poulter,David Preiss,Paul M. Ridker,Ian Roberts,Anthony Rodgers,Peter Sandercock,Kenneth F. Schulz,Peter S. Sever,John Simes,Liam Smeeth,Nicholas J. Wald,Salim Yusuf,Richard Peto +27 more
TL;DR: The large-scale evidence from randomised trials indicates that it is unlikely that large absolute excesses in other serious adverse events still await discovery, and any further findings that emerge about the effects of statin therapy would not be expected to alter materially the balance of benefits and harms.
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Economic Burden of Bladder Cancer Across the European Union
TL;DR: The economic costs of bladder cancer across the European Union was found to cost €4.9 billion in 2012, with health care accounting for €2.2 billion and representing 5% of total health care cancer costs.
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Internet use among older Europeans: an analysis based on SHARE data
TL;DR: Investigation of Internet use among elderly Europeans indicated that previous experience with computers during one’s time in the workplace is positively associated with Internet use in old age, and wider contextual structures such as area of residence and country-specific wealth and communication technology infrastructure also tend to promote Internet useamong elderly Europeans.
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Cohort Profile: The German Ageing Survey (DEAS)
Daniela Klaus,Heribert Engstler,Katharina Mahne,Julia K. Wolff,Julia Simonson,Susanne Wurm,Clemens Tesch-Römer +6 more
TL;DR: The primary goal of the project is to provide a representative national database containing information describing the living conditions of the country’s middle-aged and older population and to study diversity within the older section of the population.
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Social participation predicts cognitive functioning in aging adults over time: comparisons with physical health, depression, and physical activity
TL;DR: The magnitude of the association of social participation is comparable to other well-established predictors of cognitive functioning, providing evidence that social participation plays an important role in cognitive functioning and successful aging.
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True health vs response styles: exploring cross-country differences in self-reported health.
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Proximity and Contacts Between Older Parents and Their Children: A European Comparison
TL;DR: Using data from the 2004 Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, this article continues and extends recent cross-national research on proximity and contacts of older parents to their children and finds no indication for a decline of intergenerational relations.
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Gender differences in health: results from SHARE, ELSA and HRS
TL;DR: There is remarkable consistency in direction of gender differences in health across these 13 countries, and subjective assessment of health is poorer among women when indicators of functioning, disability and diseases are controlled.
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Intergenerational Help and Care in Europe
TL;DR: Overall, the results based on the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement data support the specialization hypothesis: professional providers take over the medically demanding and regular physical care, whereas the family is more likely to provide the less demanding, spontaneous help.