Ageing in motion
How bodies move with age, and before death.
The same people measured every four years in the US Health and Retirement Study, 2006–2022. Pick a measure to see where people sit at each age and how it falls in the years before death.
Average change per year–within the same people, over 4 years
Tracking over 4 years–correlation of a person's two values
Mortality hazard per SD–adjusted for age and sex, 95% CI
By age: median and the middle 80%
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In the years before death
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Mean value by time before death, among people who died during follow-up. Bands are two years wide.
About these numbers
Physical measures from HRS waves 8–16, adults 50 and over, weighted by the physical-measure weights. Age curves are cross-sectional percentiles; change and tracking follow the same people across two visits four years apart.
Only aggregate statistics are published. Any group of fewer than 50 people is left out.