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| Healthy ageing is associated with reduced and delayed disability | | Author(s) | Leon A Simons, John McCallum, Yechel Friedlander |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 29, no 2, March 2000 |
| Pages | pp 143-148 |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Physical disabilities ; Ill health ; Discharge [hospitals] ; Longitudinal surveys ; Australia. |
| Annotation | In an 8-year longitudinal study in Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia of 2,805 men and women aged 60 and over first examined in 1988-89, those having three or more hospital admissions manifested minimum physical disability around 5 years earlier than those with fewer admissions. Many subjects had stroke or respiratory illness, and they experienced major physical disability. The strongest predictors of physical disability were age, impaired peak expiratory flow, and disability at study entry. These findings confirm reduced or delayed physical disability in older people requiring little or no hospitalisation. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000717205 A |
| Classmark | CC: BN: CH: LD:QKJ: 3J: 7YA |
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