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Innov Aging
Innov Aging
innovateage
Innovation in Aging
2399-5300 Oxford University Press US 

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2198
igaa057.2198
Abstracts
Session 5845 (Symposium)
AcademicSubjects/SOC02600
Area-Level Disadvantage and Changes in Disability-Free Life Expectancy for Older Australians
Tawiah Richard 1 Anstey Kaarin 2 Jagger Carol 3 Kiely Kim 4 1 
University of New South Wales, Bankstown, New South Wales, Australia
2 
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
3 
Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
4 
University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2020 
16 12 2020 
16 12 2020 
4 Suppl 1 Program Abstracts from The GSA 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting “Turning 75: Why Age Matters”640 641
© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America.2020This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Abstract
We report the first analysis of inequalities in Disability-Free Life Expectancy (DFLE) trends for Australia, based on two cohorts of the nationally representative Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey. Each cohort was aged 45+ at baseline with 7-years of annual follow-up (Older cohort: 2001-2007, n=6363; Younger cohort: 2011-2017, n=8197). Disability was defined by a Global Activity Limitation Indicator, and socioeconomic position (SEP) by an area-level index of disadvantage. Compared to men in high advantage areas, men residing in low advantage areas experienced smaller gains in life expectancy (3.0 vs 4.6 years at age 65), DFLE (0.6 vs 1.8 years) and years with disability (2.4 vs 2.8 years). In contrast, for women in low advantage areas all years gained in life expectancy (2.6 years) were years with disability, whereas women in high advantage areas experienced gains in DFLE (1.7 years) and even more years with disability (2.7 years).