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Severity of upper and lower extremity functional limitation
— scale development and validation with self-report and performance-based measures of physical function | | Author(s) | Eleanor M Simonsick, Judith D Kasper, Jack M Guralnik |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 56B, no 1, January 2001 |
| Pages | pp S10-S19 |
| Keywords | Physical disabilities ; Self care capacity ; Older women ; Living in the community ; Physical capacity ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Data are from 3,635 cognitively intact women aged 65+ living in the community and 1,002 moderately to severely disabled participants from the US Women's Health and Aging Study (WHAS). Scales assessing severity of upper and lower extremity functional limitation were constructed from commonly available questions on functional difficulty. Criterion-related validity was evaluated with self-report and performance-based measures. Scale scores were well distributed in the disabled group and discriminated limitations in the broader community. For both scales, rate of difficulty for all ADLs and IADLs increased with increasing severity score, and percent able and mean performance on respective upper and lower extremity tasks decreased. These scales provide discrete measures of upper and lower functional limitation, and should contribute to a better understanding of the disablement process. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010307224 A |
| Classmark | BN: CA: BD: K4: BI: 4C: 7T |
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