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| Factors associated with health status of older Americans | | Author(s) | James K Cooper, Thomas Kohlmann |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 30, no 6, November 2001 |
| Pages | pp 495-502 |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Mental health [elderly] ; Arthritis ; Heart disease ; Respiratory tract diseases ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The short-form 36 (SF-36) physical and mental summary scores were used to measure the health status of more than 100,000 Medicare beneficiaries. The role of age as an independent factor decreased markedly after disease and symptoms were considered. Similar factors were associated with lower mental status, but age was not. The data obtained suggest that heart and lung disease and back pain are the most important factors affecting older Americans' average physical health status. Sex, marital status and race have very little independent effect. Efforts to improve average physical health status scores might be targeted at these conditions rather than demographic characteristics. Mental health status does not decline with age, and similar factors affect it to a lesser degree. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020121211 A |
| Classmark | CC: D: CLA: CQH: CN: 49: 7T |
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