Table 2.
Prevalence of a healthy state among men and women, with health defined separately for each domain. Bolded entries represent significantly higher prevalence of health in women (left columns) or men (right columns). The differences between groups based on age are described in the text.
| Female | Male | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 65–74 | 75–84 | 85–94 | 65–74 | 75–84 | 85–94 | |
| Number of observations | 12261 | 12433 | 2183 | 7801 | 8867 | 1752 |
| Mean age | 71.0 | 78.6 | 87.5 | 71.1 | 78.6 | 87.7 |
| HOSP: no hospital days | 91.3 | 87.8 | 84.9 | 88.0 | 85.6 | 81.7 |
| BED: no bed days | 94.3 | 92.3 | 89.3 | 95.9 | 94.6 | 91.3 |
| SPL: Satisfied with purpose of life | 75.7 | 69.8 | 59.6 | 80.7 | 75.2 | 67.4 |
| DEP: not depressed | 80.2 | 73.8 | 64.3 | 87.6 | 81.4 | 70.9 |
| ADL: no ADL difficulties | 86.3 | 76.1 | 56.7 | 90.2 | 82.7 | 67.6 |
| FLW: feel life is worthwhile | 94.4 | 91.0 | 83.6 | 95.3 | 91.7 | 85.6 |
| EXSTR: good extremity strength | 67.6 | 57.6 | 42.1 | 84.6 | 78.8 | 65.4 |
| SRH: high self-rated health | 79.0 | 70.8 | 60.7 | 80.0 | 73.6 | 64.7 |
| TWLK: walk 10 feet < 10 seconds | 64.3 | 44.5 | 16.9 | 73.8 | 58.6 | 30.0 |
| IADL: no IADL difficulties | 71.8 | 58.7 | 39.5 | 80.9 | 70.5 | 50.7 |
| COG: 3 MSE > 90 | 70.9 | 54.6 | 27.6 | 67.2 | 53.1 | 25.7 |
| BLK: walked 4+ blocks per day | 33.3 | 20.9 | 8.5 | 47.7 | 37.8 | 22.3 |