The Association Between Active Aging and Health-Related Quality of Life
Keon Woo, JungHoon Lee, YoonSoo Choy · 2026
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Staying active in old age tracks with feeling healthier, Keon Woo and two colleagues report from Korean survey data in a 2026 study. They drew on the eighth Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and scored older adults with the HINT-8 quality-of-life tool. Active aging was split into health, participation, and security domains for regression analysis.
The health domain carried the strongest link to quality of life, and security also mattered. Participation showed only a weak, non-significant tie, which the authors partly blame on how it was measured. Older adults with less schooling and those in rural areas scored lower on both scales. The authors ask for longitudinal work to test cause and effect.
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| CREATOR | Keon Woo, JungHoon Lee, YoonSoo Choy |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 31422 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |