Functional disability and depressive symptoms among centenarians in Nanjing, China: the mediating role of leisure activities and attitudes toward aging
Xin Xu, Yaolin Pei, Yuan Zhao, Bei Wu · 2025
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Xin Xu and co-authors ask what carries a disabled centenarian toward or away from depression in a 2025 study. One hundred eighty-five people past their hundredth birthday, surveyed at home in Nanjing, form the rare sample. Losing physical function at that age is near-universal; the question is what keeps the mind afloat as the body narrows.
Disability and depressive symptoms rose together, clearly and directly. Two middlemen softened the link. Leisure activity carried about a third of the effect: those who kept doing things they enjoyed suffered less of disability's emotional tax. Attitude toward aging carried the lion's share, over four fifths, in the statistical model: centenarians who viewed their own aging kindly were buffered against despair. The authors draw a practical moral for families and services: protect pastimes and self-regard, and mental health at extreme age has defenders even when mobility fails.
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| CREATOR | Xin Xu, Yaolin Pei, Yuan Zhao, Bei Wu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 27 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |