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Valued activities of everyday life among the very old: a one-year trend
Author(s)	Richard Lefrançois, Gilbert Leclerc, Micheline Dubé
Journal title	Activities, Adaptation & Aging, vol 25, no 3/4, 2001
Pages	pp 19-34
Source	http://www.tandfonline.com
Keywords	Activities of older people ; Recreation ; Participation ; Octogenarians ; Mobility ; Self care capacity ; Longitudinal surveys ; Canada.
Annotation	Based on a panel data from the Quebec Longitudinal Study on Ageing (QUELSA), this article investigates the preferred types of activity of 80-85 year olds, contrasting for gender and functional health condition. Results showed that respondents were more involved in emotional, spiritual and social types of activity. Engagement in activities among older adults did not change significantly over a one year period. A reduced capacity in performing instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) was found to have the most detrimental effect on valued activity. These results indicate that incapacity may have an adverse impact not only on physical activity, but on all other types of activity as well. The analyses suggest that older adults manage to compensate for the loss in one type of activity, by increasing their commitment in other types. (KJ/RH).
Accession Number	CPA-020416209 A
Classmark	G: H: TMB: BBM: C4: CA: 3J: 7S
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