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| Activity and health-related quality of life in continuing care retirement communities | | Author(s) | Kristi Rahrig Jenkins, Amy Mehraban Pienta, Ann L Horgas |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 24, no 1, January 2002 |
| Pages | pp 124-149 |
| Keywords | Recreation ; Health [elderly] ; Quality of life ; Evaluation ; Retirement communities ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Existing research indicates that involvement in activity is an important correlate of healthy ageing in community-dwelling older people, a finding that is expected to hold with those in continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs). Time spent engaged in discretionary activities - specifically active, passive and outside retirement community activities - are expected to be associated with better health-related quality of life ((HRQoL) across multiple dimensions. Data were collected from 167 independent living and assisted living residents in two CCRCs in a large Midwestern metropolitan area. Activity engagement was measured by a self-report questionnaire. Health-related quality of life was measured using the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form Health Survey (SF-36), which generates eight health subscales (e.g. physical functioning, social functioning, pain). Based on ordinary least squares regression models, the results indicate that discretionary activities, particularly more active types of activity, are positively associated with higher health-related quality of life. These findings have implications for health and activity promotion in CCRCs. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020416226 A |
| Classmark | H: CC: F:59: 4C: ROA: 7T |
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