Objective. To analyse age dynamics of subjective life quality assessment and estimate the opportunities to use life quality indicators to monitoring personal potential and to measure biological age.Methods. The study uses data from population quality of life studies that are conducted based on the SF-36 and mortality tables sourced from the Human Mortality Database.Results. The study showed that, in 45−75, self-assessment of life quality decreases slower than the probability of survival for both men and women. This result may be associated with an increase in psychological stability due to the accumulation of life experience. In this sense, components of life quality might be used as indicators of personal potential that can counteract the inevitable destruction of the body over time.Interpretation. The results of the study showed that quality of life indicators measured by the SF-36 might be used to monitor personal potential as measures of individual’s resistance to environmental conditions, as well as the markers of the biological age.
DOI: 10.26347/1607-2499202101-02033-036
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Smirnova T. M., Krutyko V. N., Belova E. V. Assessing quality of life in older adults as a method to monitor their individual personal potential // Clinical Gerontology. 2021; 27 (1-2): 33–36.