Staff Profile

I retired in June 2021 as AXA Professor of Epidemiology of Ageing in the Population Health Sciences Institute at Newcastle University. I retain an active interest in heathy ageing, particularly healthy life expectancy, and the Population Ageing and Care Simulation model (PACSim), which I developed with Dr Andrew Kingston. I have also retained chair of the Newcastle 85 Study Data Guardians Group.

For a full list of my publications see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1hwCBee6Oiy5g/bibliography/public/. 

• Articles

  • Mendonca N, Hengeveld LM, Presse N, Canhao H, Simonsick EM, Kritchevsky SB, Farsijani S, Gaudreau P, Jagger C, Visser M. Protein intake, physical activity and grip strength in European and North American community-dwelling older adults: a pooled analysis of individual participant data from four longitudinal ageing cohorts. British Journal of Nutrition 2023, 129(7), 1221-1231.
  • Adamson A, Davies K, Wham C, Kepa M, Foster E, Jones A, Mathers J, Granic A, Teh R, Moyes S, Hayman K, Siervo M, Maxted E, Redwood K, Collerton J, Jagger C, Kirkwood T, Dyall L, Kerse N. Assessment of Dietary Intake in Three Cohorts of Advanced Age in Two Countries: Methodology Challenges. Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging 2023, 27, 59-66.
  • Rahman MM, Jagger C, Leigh L, Holliday E, Princehorn E, Loxton D, Kowal P, Beard J, Byles J. The Impact of Education and Lifestyle Factors on Disability-Free Life Expectancy From Mid-Life to Older Age: A Multi-Cohort Study. International Journal of Public Health 2022, 67, 1605045.
  • Davies LE, Mercer SW, Brittain K, Jagger C, Robinson L, Kingston A. The association between multimorbidity and mobility disability-free life expectancy in adults aged 85 years and over: A modelling study in the Newcastle 85+ cohort. PLOS Medicine 2022, 19(11), e1004130.
  • Lynch M, Bucknall M, Jagger C, Wilkie R. Projections of healthy working life expectancy in England to the year 2035. Nature Aging 2022, 2, 13-18.
  • Kingston A, Wittenberg R, Hu B, Jagger C. Projections of dependency and associated social care expenditure for the older population in England to 2038: Effect of varying disability progression. Age and Ageing 2022, 51(7), afac158.
  • Rahman MM, Jagger C, Princehorn EM, Holliday EG, Leigh L, Loxton DJ, Beard J, Kowal P, Byles JE. Onset and progression of chronic disease and disability in a large cohort of older Australian women. Maturitas 2022, 158, 25-33.
  • Tawiah R, Jagger C, Anstey KJ, Kiely KM. Lifecourse socioeconomic position and cohort differences in health expectancy in Australia: a longitudinal cohort study. The Lancet Public Health 2022, 7(4), e347-e355.
  • Lynch M, Bucknall M, Jagger C, Wilkie R. Healthy working life expectancy at age 50 for people with and without osteoarthritis in local and national English populations. Scientific Reports 2022, 12, 2408.
  • Whitehead IO, Jagger C, Hanratty B. Discussing spiritual health in primary care and the HOPE tool - A mixed methods survey of GP views. PLoS ONE 2022, 17(11), e0276281.
  • Whitehead IO, Moffatt S, Jagger C, Hanratty B. A national study of burnout and spiritual health in UK general practitioners during the COVID-19 pandemic. PLoS ONE 2022, 17(11), e0276739.
  • Bennett HQ, Kingston A, Lourida I, Robinson L, Corner L, Brayne C, Matthews FE, Jagger C, the Cognitive Function and Ageing Studies Collaboration. A comparison over 2 decades of disability-free life expectancy at age 65 years for those with long-term conditions in England: Analysis of the 2 longitudinal Cognitive Function and Ageing Studies. PLoS Medicine 2022, 19(3), e1003936.
  • Welsh CE, Matthews FE, Jagger C. Trends in life expectancy and healthy life years at birth and age 65 in the UK, 2008-2016, and other countries of the EU28: an observational cross-sectional study. The Lancet Regional Health - Europe 2021, 2, 100023.
  • Spiers GF, Kunonga TP, Beyer F, Craig D, Hanratty B, Jagger C. Trends in health expectancies: A systematic review of international evidence. BMJ Open 2021, 11(5), e045567.
  • Tawiah R, Jagger C, Anstey KJ, Kiely KM. Trends in disability-free life expectancy at age 50 years in Australia between 2001 and 2011 by social disadvantage. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2021, 75(11), 1056-1062.
  • Kingston A, Byles J, Kiely K, Anstey KJ, Jagger C. The Impact of Smoking and Obesity on Disability-Free Life Expectancy in Older Australians. The Journals of Gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2021, 76(7), 1265-1272.
  • Bennett HQ, Kingston A, Lourida I, Robinson L, Corner L, Brayne CEG, Matthews FE, Jagger C. The contribution of multiple long-term conditions to widening inequalities in disability-free life expectancy over two decades:Longitudinal analysis of two cohorts using the Cognitive Function and Ageing Studies. EClinicalMedicine 2021, 39, 101041.
  • Mendonça N, Hengeveld LM, Visser M, Presse N, Canhão H, Simonsick EM, Kritchevsky SB, Newman AB, Gaudreau P, Jagger C. Low protein intake, physical activity, and physical function in European and North American community-dwelling older adults; a pooled analysis of four longitudinal again cohorts. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2021, 114(1), 29-41.
  • Wubishet BL, Byles JE, Harris ML, Jagger C. Impact of Diabetes on Life and Healthy Life Expectancy Among Older Women. The Journals of Gerontology. Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences 2021, 76(5), 914-921.
  • Bennett HQ, Kingston A, Spiers G, Robinson L, Corner L, Bambra C, Brayne C, Matthews FE, Jagger C. Healthy ageing for all? Comparisons of socioeconomic inequalities in health expectancies over two decades in the Cognitive Function and Ageing Studies I and II. International Journal of Epidemiology 2021, 50(3), 841-851.
  • Gan EH, Jagger C, Yadegarfar ME, Duncan R, Pearce SH. Changes in Serum Thyroid Function Predict Cognitive Decline in the Very Old: Longitudinal Findings from the Newcastle 85+ Study. Thyroid 2021, 31(8), 1182-1191.
  • Lourida I, Boer JMA, Teh R, Kerse N, Mendonca N, Rolleston A, Sette S, Tapanainen H, Turrini A, Virtanen SM, Visser M, Jagger C. Association of daily physical activity and sedentary behaviour with protein intake patterns in older adults: A multi-study analysis across five countries. Nutrients 2021, 13(8), 2574.
  • Libby G, Zimmer Z, Kingston A, Haviva C, Chiu C-T, Ofstedal MB, Saito Y, Jagger C. Are Religiosity and Spirituality Related to Self-Reported Health Expectancy? An Analysis of the European Values Survey. Journal of Religion and Health 2021, 61, 2590-2604.
  • Parker M, Bucknall M, Jagger C, Wilkie R. Population-based estimates of healthy working life expectancy in England at age 50 years: analysis of data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. The Lancet Public Health 2020, 5(7), e395-e403.

• Review

  • Whitehead O, Jagger C, Hanratty B. What do doctors understand by spiritual health? A survey of UK general practitioners. BMJ Open 2021, 11(8), e045110.