Department of Counselling and Psychology, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Hong Kong, China.
Centre for Interdisciplinary Evidence-based Practice and Research (CIEBPR), Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Hong Kong, China.
Int J Aging Hum Dev. 2024 Sep;99(2):152-178. doi: 10.1177/00914150231208681. Epub 2023 Oct 30.
Notwithstanding the oldest-old cohort being the fastest-growing population in most ageing societies, characterizing successful ageing in adults of advanced age, such as nonagenarians and centenarians, remains challenging. This study investigated the successful ageing subphenotypes using the data from Hong Kong Centenarian Study 2. Between April 2021 and September 2022, 146 family caregivers of community-dwelling older adults aged 95 or above were interviewed by phone. Latent class analysis identified three classes- (46.6%) with poor mobility, cognitive and functional health, (37.0%) but good functional health, and (16.4%) with overall good health-from 11 indicators based on caregivers' reports. Although we found a low prevalence of fulfillment of all indicators of successful ageing, our findings will help care professionals appreciate the heterogeneity underlying partial successful ageing in this vulnerable cohort for segmented and targeted healthy longevity interventions.
尽管最年长的老年人群体是大多数老龄化社会中增长最快的群体，但描述超高龄人群（如 95 岁及以上的人）的成功老龄化仍然具有挑战性。本研究使用来自香港百岁老人研究 2 的数据，探讨了成功老龄化的亚表型。在 2021 年 4 月至 2022 年 9 月期间，通过电话对 146 名 95 岁及以上的社区居住的老年人的家庭护理人员进行了访谈。潜在类别分析从护理人员报告的 11 个指标中确定了三个类别：（46.6%）移动能力、认知和功能健康较差，（37.0%）但功能健康良好，以及（16.4%）整体健康状况良好。尽管我们发现完全满足成功老龄化所有指标的比例较低，但我们的研究结果将有助于护理专业人员了解这一脆弱群体中部分成功老龄化的异质性，以便对其进行有针对性的健康长寿干预。
