Population ageing shifts long-term care policies towards supporting ageing in place. While most older adults prefer to remain at home, this preference depends on receiving sufficient support. Inadequate home care may contribute to unmet care needs, caregiver strain, and a desire to move to more intensive care settings. This study examines two potential indicators of unmet care needs among older adults in Finland: (1) a preference to move to 24‑hour care and (2) informal caregiver strain. Using nationwide Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) home care data from 2023, we analysed clients aged ≥65. Preferences for 24‑hour care were analysed among clients whose assessments included input from the client and/or a family member (n = 39,652). Caregiver strain was examined among clients receiving both informal and formal home care (n = 35,833). Logistic regression models were used to estimate associations between client characteristics and both outcomes. Approximately 9
Sustainable ageing depends on equitable opportunities to maintain physical, mental, and social well-being, yet older migrants are often treated as a homogeneous group. This study aimed to identify sociodemographic and migration-related subgroups among midlife and older Russian-speaking migrants in Finland, examine how these subgroups differed in functional mobility and depressive symptoms, and assess whether the association between functional mobility and depressive symptoms varied across subgroups and age groups. We used data from the Care, Health and Ageing of the Russian-Speaking Minority in Finland (CHARM) study. We conducted latent class/profile analyses, using three-step approaches to examine subgroup differences and associations, separately for participants aged under 65 years (n = 653) and 65 years or older (n = 492). In both age groups, two subgroups emerged: an established subgroup characterised by earlier migration, better local language proficiency, and no income support, and a vulnerable subgroup characterised by later migration, poorer local language proficiency, and receipt of income support. Male participants were more likely to belong to the vulnerable subgroups. Vulnerable migrants had poorer functional mobility among those aged 65 years or older, while depressive symptoms did not differ between subgroups in either age group. Poorer functional mobility was associated with higher levels of depressive symptoms, with larger estimated associations observed in the vulnerable subgroups, particularly among those under 65 years. These findings highlight heterogeneity within ageing migrant populations and suggest that inequalities across dimensions of sustainable ageing reflect interconnected physical, mental, and integration-related pathways.
Self-rated health is one of the most used measures of subjective health in research. At the same time, it presents several methodological challenges. Self-rated health requires individuals to translate their complex, multifaceted health experiences into a single response on the self-rated health scale. When different groups interpret and rate their health differently e.g. by gender or birth cohorts, the risk of misinterpretation increases. Older adults tend to rate their health as good or very good despite the increasing physical degeneration associated with ageing. To address these challenges, the anchoring vignette method was developed to improve the comparability of survey responses. In this study, anchoring vignettes were used to investigate the association between demographic and health-related predictors and both unadjusted and adjusted self-rated health in later life. Data were collected through the Swedish Citizen Panel; a total of 4,300 individuals aged 60–85 were invited, stratified by age and sex. 3,083 participants completed more than 80
This study examines how adult children’s informal caregiving in Denmark has evolved over the past 25 years, focusing on adults aged 52–67 and their caregiving for parents and parents-in-law between 1997 and 2022. This period is characterized by significant societal and institutional shifts, including increasing longevity, delayed childbearing, educational expansion, rising female labour force participation, and postponed retirement—developments that may have shaped caregiving practices. Using data from the Danish Longitudinal Study of Ageing, linked with population and education registry information for 1997–2022, we apply Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition techniques and adjusted predictions from linear probability models to assess changes in caregiving patterns and their association with socio-economic and demographic factors. Results show that the proportion of 52–67-year-olds assisting a parent or in-law with at least one task in the past month increased from 27.9
SuperAging refers to older adults who maintain exceptional cognitive functioning despite advanced age. However, little is known about which lifestyle factors contribute to this phenomenon. This cross sectional study explored the relationship between lifelong leisure activities and SuperAging in physically active women. The sample consisted of 225 women, aged 80–96, who were physically active during midlife (ages 30–60), meeting WHO (2020) adult physical activity guidelines of ≥ 150 min of moderate or ≥ 75 min of vigorous-intensity aerobic activity per week, or an equivalent combination. SuperAgers were classified based on cognitive performance according to the criteria of the Northwestern University SuperAging Program. Engagement in past and current leisure activities was self-reported. A series of statistical analyses, including group comparisons, regression analyses, and Bayesian mixed models, were used to examine the association between these activities and SuperAging. Of the participants, 58 (25.9
