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Study title

Vitality 90+ Survey 1996

Creator

Hervonen, Antti (University of Tampere. Tampere School of Public Health)
Jylhä, Marja (University of Tampere. Tampere School of Public Health)

Study number / PID

FSD3007 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3007 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd3007 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Vitality 90+

Vitality 90+ is a multidisciplinary research project initiated by Antti Hervonen and Marja Jylhä in 1995. The project focuses on people aged 90 and over residing in Tampere. The project is motivated by rapid changes in the population structure and the increase in longevity. Central research themes in the project include trends in health and functioning, services and informal care, circumstances and subjective experiences of the long-lived, and biology of aging and longevity. Several kinds of data have been collected with different methods, such as longitudinal mail surveys, health...

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Abstract

The survey studied longevity and the oldest-old by charting the care, activity and everyday life of people aged 90 and over living in Tampere. The respondents were asked who they lived with, whether someone helped them at home, who helped them the most with everyday tasks, and whether a housekeeper or home helper visited them regularly. Further questions examined whether the respondents spent most of the day on their feet, sitting down or in bed, whether they did their shopping by themselves, whether they went outside regularly, whether they followed news in the paper, and whether they thought it is a good thing for a person to live to be 100 years old. Finally, relating to health and physical mobility, questions surveyed self-perceived health status, how well the respondents were able to move and do everyday activities (e.g. walk 400 metres, use the stairs, dress and undress, and get in and out of bed), and what they thought was their secret to old age. Background variables included the respondent's gender and year of birth. Additionally, there was a variable charting who had responded to the survey; the respondent him/herself, a family member, relative or acquaintance, or a home helper.

Topics

Medical and health sciencesElderlyGeneral health and well-beingSpecific social services: use and availability

Keywords

AgeingCare of dependantsCare of the elderlyElderlyHealthHome helpOld agePhysical mobility

Methodology

Data collection period

1996

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Longitudinal: Cohort/Event-based
Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Elderly people aged 90 and over living at home in Tampere

Sampling procedure

Total universe/Complete enumeration

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

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Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2016

Terms of data access

The dataset is (D) available only by permission from the data depositor/creator.

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