Life review in advanced age: qualitative research on the ‘start in life’ of 90-year-olds in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921

Table 1 LBC1921 Wave 4 Life Review participant data

Measure	N (%)	Mean	SD
Moray House Test
Scottish Population Age 11^a	87,498	34.5	15.5
LBC1921 (with life review)^b Age 11	111	49.4	10.6
LBC1921 (whole sample)^c Age 79	550	59.2	10.8
LBC1921 (with life review)^b Age 79	125	63.5	8.0
LBC1921 (with life review)^b Age 90	120	52.1	13.9
Years in full-time education	129	11.5	2.7
Gender
Male	58 (46 %)
Female	68 (54 %)
Childhood Social class
Professional	20 (17 %)
Managerial	33 (27 %)
Skilled non-manual	45 (37 %)
Skilled manual	15 (12 %)
Unskilled	8 (7 %)
Adult Social Class
Professional	41 (33 %)
Managerial	43 (34 %)
Skilled non-manual	39 (31 %)
Skilled manual	0 (0 %)
Unskilled	2 (2 %)
Marital status
Married	33 (26 %)
Single	11 (9 %)
Divorced	3 (2 %)
Widowed	78 (62 %)
Living Alone	84 (67 %)
Medical problems
Hypertension	81 (64 %)
Cardiovascular disease	57 (45 %)
Diabetes	6 (5 %)
Cerebrovascular disease	19 (15 %)
Cancer	27 (21 %)
Dementia	2 (2 %)
Thyroid disease	16 (13 %)
Arthritis	58 (46 %)

Note. The total numbers differ slightly between measures due to (a) missing data on some of the variables and (b) for some variables data for the 129 Wave 4 participants was used rather than for the 126 Life Review Questionnaire completions
^aScottish Mental Survey 1932 sample, which included almost a whole Scottish population born in 1921
^bSubsample of the LBC1921 with completed life review questionnaire at age 90
^cWhole LBC1921 sample at the study onset at age 79

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