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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS HH9J9R0x. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Background Recently, late-life disability rates have declined in several countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation, but no national-level trend analysis for England has been available. The authors provide such analysis, including measures both early and late in the disablement process, and the authors investigate the extent to which temporal trends are associated with population changes in socioeconomic position (SEP). Methods The authors fit logistic models of trends in self-reports and nurse measures of 16 health indicators, based on cross-sectional data from those aged 65 years and older from the 1992 to 2007 Health Survey for England. Results Overall, prevalence rates of limitations in seeing, hearing and usual activities declined (p
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