food restrictions, child labour, family economic environment, serious illness or accident and stressful life events) indicated a decreasing trend in younger samples. 18 The three samples did not differ in multiple indicators of perceived health—an observation that challenges the widely held belief that Baby Boomers are ageing in better health. 19 However, diverging trends still arose from objective health assessments. 20 Whereas Baby Boomers achieved the highest physical performance levels (e.g. gait speed, timed up and go), they performed worse in cognitive tests (e.g.
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