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Report of having slowed down
— evidence for the validity of a new way to inquire about mild disability in elders | | Author(s) | Zachary M Pine, Barry Gurland, Mary-Margaret Chren |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, vol 55A, no 7, July 2000 |
| Pages | pp M378-M383 |
| Keywords | Feeding capacity ; Mobility ; Gait loss ; Physical disabilities ; Living in the community ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Mild disability in older people may be detected by eliciting reports of modified task performance. In this study of 287 older people enrolled in the Manhattan Aging Project / Active Urban Minority Elderly Study (NMAP/ALE), reports of slowing over 10- and 1-year periods were almost uniformly consistent with a general decline in speed. Reported slowing was significantly associated with reported difficulty walking and with slower gait speed. In the subgroup of those initially reporting no difficulty with walking, reported slowing significantly predicted incident difficulty walking at follow-up, as well as other adverse walking outcomes. For example, among those who reported slowing, 7% developed new difficulty walking outdoors, 10% difficulty with walking indoors, and 19% stopped walking for pleasure, compared with 0%, 0% and 3% for those who had not reported slowing at all. Evidence of construct and predictive validity of one type of task modification, namely slowing in indoor walking, could help in measuring disability or identifying functional problems. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000825208 A |
| Classmark | CA4: C4: C8G: BN: K4: 3J: 7T |
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