Recursos económicos y calidad de vida en la población mayor

Abstract

Economic resources are an important domain in Quality of Life (QoL) in later ages. Several characteristics, taken from the CadeViMa survey, are used to cluster old people, based on the objective and economic resources and their subjective assessments. The groups depicted were the pessimists without or with enough economic resources (deprivation, dissonance), and the optimists without and with economic base (adaptation and well-being) according to the theory of objective living conditions and subjective well-being. Elderly personal features and other factors were analysed to ground their economic assessment and the self-economic evaluation, arising the age, health status, social and family networks and leisure activities as the most significant explaining factors.