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| Disability-free life expectancy of elderly people in a population undergoing demographic and epidemiologic transition | | Author(s) | Sutthichai Jitapunkul, Chaiyos Kunanusont, Wiput Phoolcharoen |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 32, no 4, July 2003 |
| Pages | pp 401-405 |
| Keywords | Mobility ; Self care capacity ; Physical disabilities ; Life expectancy tables ; Longitudinal surveys ; Thailand. |
| Annotation | In many demographically developing countries, life expectancy is increasing very rapidly, but little information is available on survival free of disability. In this study of 4,048 Thai people aged 60+, prevalence rates of long-term disability and dependency in self-care activities of daily living (ADls) were 19% and 6.9% respectively. Rates of disability increased with age, and women were more disabled than men. The life expectancy and disability-free life expectancy at age 60 were, respectively, 20.3 years and 16.4 years for men, and 23.9 years and 18.2 years for women. Self-care life expectancies at age 60, calculated from the prevalence of needing help with basic self-care activities were 18.6 years for men and 21.3 years for women. Women spent proportionately more of their longer life expectancy in a disabled state than men. Men and women can, respectively, expect that 19% and 24% of their life expectancy at age 60 will be spent in a disabled state, but may expect only about 10% of their life expectancy to be spent unable to manage basic self-care ADLs. Thus, self-care life expectancy is a useful indicator for monitoring the achievement of national health and social policy objectives. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030804210 A |
| Classmark | C4: CA: BN: S7: 3J: 7HG |
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