Childhood adversity and disadvantage in relation to incident disability and multimorbidity: prospective analyses of ELSA and two SHARE inception samples
Tao Zhou, Guohua Jiang, Ruijinlin Hao, Yi Fang, Li Liu, Jun Wu, Xiaojin Zhang · 2026
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Tao Zhou and co-authors link childhood hardship to late-life health in this 2026 study. Hard starts in health and wealth may cast long shadows, yet proof on later disability and disease counts was thin. The team draws on two large aging studies in England and mainland Europe.
Tens of thousands of older adults were tracked for first signs of trouble with daily tasks and for picking up two or more diseases. The highest hardship groups faced clearly higher risk of daily-task trouble in most samples. Disease count risks leaned the same way, though less evenly. Measures of childhood differed across studies, so the authors keep each result in its own frame.
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| CREATOR | Tao Zhou, Guohua Jiang, Ruijinlin Hao, Yi Fang, Li Liu, Jun Wu, Xiaojin Zhang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 72 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |