... health status, the meanMCS score was similar to the general population norm,indicating that mental heal th status was not worse than in the rest of the population.Even within the group of advanced ... in the Netherlands and Belgium, and lower in Germany than the grand mean.Conclusions: More than two thirds of the advanced elderly report impairment of health status. Impairmentincreases rapidly ... intoaccount age, gender, years of education, employment status and the number of persons living in the house-hold. About 20% of the individuals had missing values in any of the summands. Missing data...