Quality of life in older adults according to race/color: a cross-sectional study.

Sao Paulo Med J

PhD. Nurse and Adjunct Professor, Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidade de Brasília (UnB), Brasília (DF), Brazil.

Published: December 2022

Background: Increased longevity is accompanied by new social and health demands, such as the race/color social construct, indicating the need to identify the specific needs of older adults to maintain and improve their quality of life.

Objective: We aimed to verify the direct and indirect associations of demographic, economic, and biopsychosocial characteristics with self-assessed quality of life in older adults according to race/color.

Design And Setting: This cross-sectional study included 941 older adults living in the urban area of a health microregion in Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Methods: Older adults were divided into three groups: white (n = 585), brown (n = 238), and black (n = 102) race/color. Descriptive and trajectory analyses were performed (P < 0.05).

Results: Among the three groups, worse self-assessed quality of life was directly associated with lower social support scores and greater numbers of depressive symptoms. Worse self-assessed quality of life was also directly associated with a higher number of functional disabilities in basic activities of daily living and the absence of a partner among older adults of brown and black race/color. Lower monthly income and higher numbers of morbidities and compromised components of the frailty phenotype were observed among participants of white race/color, as well as lower levels of education in the brown race/color group.

Conclusion: Factors associated with poorer self-assessed quality of life among older adults in the study community differed according to race/color.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9808993PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1516-3180.2021.0720.R1.29042022DOI Listing

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