In sickness and in health? Comorbidity in older couples

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We investigate the nature and origin of comorbidity, defined as the tendency of members of marital couples to display correlated patterns of ill-health in later life. In the absence of long-term prospective data on couples, we use long-range recall data from the pan-European SHARELife survey and estimate a latent variable model of the health states of marital partners in childhood, early adulthood and late adulthood. We find strong persistence in health states and a strong comorbidity correlation, attributable almost equally to homogamy in relation to early health and common factors operating within marriage.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: ISER Working Paper Series ; No. 2013-30

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Health Behavior ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
• Subject: Health ; disability ; lifecourse ; homogamy ; SHARE

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Booker, Cara L. ; Pudney, Stephen
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
• (where): Colchester
• (when): 2013

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/91693
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET