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Educational differences in the prevalence of mobility disability in old age — the dynamics of incidence, mortality and recovery
Author(s)	David Melzer, Grant Izmirlian, Suzanne G Leveille
Journal title	Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 56B, no 5, September 2001
Pages	pp S294-S301
Keywords	Mobility ; Physical disabilities ; Educational status [elderly] ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America.
Annotation	Older people with less education have substantially higher prevalence rates of mobility disability. This study uses data for 8,871 people aged 65-84 from three sites of the Established Populations for Epidemiological Study of the Elderly (EPESE), to establish the relative contributions of incidence, recovery rates, and death to prevalence differences in mobility disability associated with educational status. Differences in person years living with disability between those who had received education for 7 years or less and those with 12 or more years of education were large. The authors suggest that efforts to reduce these disparities in old age should focus mainly on preventing disability. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-011025212 A
Classmark	C4: BN: F:V: 3J: 7T
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