Table 1.
Life expectancy (LE), disability-free life expectancy and life expectancy with disability at age 65 years from the Cognitive Function and Ageing Studies (CFAS I and CFAS II) and the difference between the two studies
| CFAS I | CFAS II |
Difference
(CFAS II – CFAS I) |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Men | Estimate (95% CI) | Estimate (95% CI) | Estimate (95% CI) |
| Life expectancy (years) | 13.2 (12.6–13.8) | 17.8 (17.1–18.4) | 4.6 (3.7–5.5) |
| Disability-free LE (years) | 9.9 (9.2–10.6) | 13.7 (12.9–14.4) | 3.7 (2.7–4.8) |
| Disability-free LE (% of LE) | 75.2 (73.5–76.9) | 76.8 (75.3–78.4) | 1.6 (-0.6–3.9) |
| LE with disability (years) | 3.3 (2.9–3.6) | 4.1 (3.7–4.5) | 0.8 (0.3–1.4) |
| LE with disability (% of LE) | 24.8 (23.1–26.5) | 23.2 (21.6–24.7) | −1.6 (-3.9–0.6) |
| Women | Estimate (95% CI) | Estimate (95% CI) | Estimate (95% CI) |
| Life expectancy (years) | 17.6 (17.0–18.2) | 19.6 (18.9–20.3) | 2.1 (1.1–3.0) |
| Disability-free LE (years) | 9.8 (9.2–10.4) | 11.7 (11.0–12.5) | 2.0 (1.0–2.9) |
| Disability-free LE (% of LE) | 55.6 (54.0–57.2) | 59.7 (58.0–61.4) | 4.1 (1.8–6.5) |
| LE with disability (years) | 7.8 (7.3–8.3) | 7.9 (7.3–8.5) | 0.1 (-0.7–0.9) |
| LE with disability (% of LE) | 44.4 (42.8–46.0) | 40.3 (38.6–42.0) | −4.1 (-6.5 – -1.8) |
Models stratified by sex and study. For CFAS I, men total N = 2615, CFAS II men N = 2866, CFAS I women N = 3693 and CFAS II women N = 3231.