Signs of old age appear much earlier in poorer people
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Differences between the highest and lowest wealth groups were significant in numerous areas, including walking speed and memory.
By Paul Gallagher
Signs of old age appear much earlier in poorer people, a study has found. UCL researchers used a sample of more than 5,000 people, with an average age of 64, from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, first assessing them in 2004 and then eight years later in 2012.
They looked at whether the rate at which the participants aged varied with their...
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