Centre for Policy on Ageing



Performance-based and self-reported physical functioning in low-functioning older persons — congruence of change and the impact of depressive symptoms
Author(s)	Gertrudis I J M Kempen, Mark Sullivan, Eric van Sonderen
Journal title	The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 54B, no 6, November 1999
Pages	pp P380-386
Keywords	Mobility ; Self care capacity ; Physical disabilities ; Depression ; Symptoms ; Longitudinal surveys ; Netherlands.
Annotation	The impact of depressive symptoms on changes in self-reported physical functioning was examined in 574 low-functioning older people, a sub-sample from the Groningen Longitudinal Ageing Study (GLAS). Initial levels of depressive symptoms were not predicted for subsequent change in self-reported physical functioning, for which changes were only moderately associated with changes in performance-based physical functioning. The strongest congruence of measured change between self-reported and performance-based physical functioning was found in older people with increased depressive symptoms. The results suggest that preventing an increase in depressive symptoms may help prevent further discrimination in poorly functioning older people. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-000306226 A
Classmark	C4: CA: BN: ENR: CT: 3J: 76H
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing

...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing.