Table 1.

Sample characteristics (n = 6680).

Age (yrs)	74.31 (1.00)
Age group (%)
65–69	30.13
70–79	45.57
80–89	21.57
90+	2.73
Felt age (yrs)	61.64 (2.58)
Felt age group (%)
Felt younger	70.75
Felt the same	17.96
Felt older	6.85
Missing (DK/RF)	4.45
Gender (%)
Male	44.20
Female	55.80
Race/ethnicity (%)
Non-Hispanic white	81.11
Black	8.02
Hispanic	6.73
All other races	4.14
Education
<High school/DK/refused	21.43
High school diploma or GED	27.08
Some college or associate degree	26.61
Bachelor’s degree or higher	24.88
No. of chronic medical conditions	2.34 (0.02)
No. of ADL/IADL impairments1 (0–14)	1.03 (0.06)
Had pain limiting activities (%)	28.39
Self-rated health (1–5)	2.63 (0.02)
Self-rated memory (1–5)	2.57 (0.12)
Depression score at T1 (2–8; n = 6639)	2.87 (0.02)
Depression score at T2 (2–8; n = 5371)	2.84 (0.03)

Note: All statistics refer to time 1 (T1) characteristics, unless specified otherwise, and weighted.

¹ADLs: Eating, bathing, toileting, dressing, getting in and out of bed, getting in and out of chair, and walking inside; IADLs: Preparing meals, doing laundry, doing light housework, shopping for groceries, managing money, taking medication, and making telephone calls. The small number of missing values (did not know [DK] or refused to answer [RF]) in some of the medical conditions and ADL/IADL variables were treated as the absence of a diagnosis or impairment to arrive at conservative estimates.