Publications by authors named "Eline Verspoor"
The concept of social health has recently received increasing attention in dementia research. Various notions of what social health is and how it can be measured are circulating. They may pose challenges for comparing results and interpreting them for the development of interventions.
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- Social health in dementia is gaining attention, highlighting the need for understanding social health markers that can aid in developing interventions and measures.
- An international qualitative study across six countries (Australia, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Poland, Netherlands) involved interviews with various stakeholders, including people with dementia and caregivers, to identify both known and new social health markers.
- The study identified 67 participants and revealed social health markers such as loneliness and novel concepts like compliance with social norms and the role of social networks, emphasizing the importance of both individual and social environmental factors in dementia care.
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- This study investigates how social health markers at the start can impact cognitive ability and decline over 11 to 18 years in older adults across different studies.
- Utilizing data from nearly 17,000 participants, researchers employed multilevel models to link social health factors to cognitive functions like executive function and memory.
- Results show that while good social health is generally linked to better cognitive capability, the strength of these associations varies by specific social factors and across different studies, indicating a need for tailored interventions.
Background And Objectives: Successful aging has been described as a multifactorial and dynamic process. The aims of the study were to detect aging trajectories of physical function and behavioral, psychological, and social well-being; and to explore the correlations between functional versus well-being trajectories by age group.
Research Design And Methods: Data were gathered from the Swedish National Study on Aging and Care in Kungsholmen ( = 1,375).
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- - The study aims to clarify the concept of social health in relation to dementia, highlighting its potential role in cognitive decline and the need for a more robust framework to guide future research.
- - An iterative process was employed to develop a conceptual model that defines social health as an individual's well-being influenced by both personal capacities and the social environment, encompassing factors like social participation and networks.
- - The framework serves as a foundation for identifying risk and protective factors in dementia, pointing towards new preventive strategies and emphasizing the importance of studying social health in dementia research.
Background: In the light of urbanization and aging, a crucially relevant policy question is how to shape neighborhoods to foster healthy aging. An important debate is whether older adults should group in neighborhoods, or whether a more mixed neighborhood age composition is more beneficial to health and well-being. We therefore assessed the association between neighborhood age structure and mental health and the mediating role of individual perceptions of neighborhood social factors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To investigate the longitudinal association between the macronutrient composition of the diet and frailty.
Methods: Data were obtained from 5205 Dutch middle-aged and older adults participating in the Rotterdam Study. Frailty was measured using a frailty index based on the accumulation of 38 health-related deficits, score between 0 and 100, and a higher score indicating more frailty.