Are today's older people more active than their predecessors? Participation in leisure-time activities in Sweden in 1992 and 2002
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For the older individual, leisure activities are a resource that helps to maintain health and engagement with life. This article investigates change over 10 years in the level of participation of older people in leisure activities in Sweden, and the factors associated with these changes. The data are from nationally representative samples of the Swedish population aged 77 or more years in 1992 and 2002. The level of participation was higher at the later date, and among four major groups of activities, social and cultural activities increased the most, while physical and intellectual activities increased only among women. Ordered logistic regressions enable variations in the level of participation by age, gender, level of education, disability and fatigue to be described. Participation in most kinds of activities, including the overall level, was more common at the younger ages (the late seventies and early eighties) and among those with full mobility and more education. Since average health was worse in 2002 than in 1992, it cannot explain the higher level of participation. Other possible explanations, such as cohort differences, improved accessibility, and changing gender roles, and the implications for health promotion programmes are discussed.
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- Authors
- AGAHI, N., & PARKER, M. G.
- Affiliations
- Stockholm University (SE)
- ORCID
- AGAHI, NEDA
- Venue
- Ageing and Society
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2005-11
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 925-941
- ISSN
- 0144-686X (ISSN-L)
- 1469-1779
- OpenAlex
- W1964345046
- Cited by
- 104
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 5.94
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Ageing and Society (publishedVersion)
- Lund University Publications (Lund University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Aging, Health, and Disability
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology › Aging and Gerontology Research
- Keywords
- older adults, leisure-time activities, participation trends, social and cultural activities, physical activity, intellectual activity, gender differences, educational attainment, disability, fatigue, mobility (physical function), cohort differences, health promotion, aging
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