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| The burden and patterns of disability in activities of daily living among community-living older persons | | Author(s) | Thomas M Gill, Brenda Kurland |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, vol 58A, no 1, January 2003 |
| Pages | pp 70-75 |
| Source | www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Physical disabilities ; Stress ; Self care capacity ; Mobility ; Living in the community ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The onset of disability in activities of daily living (ADLs) is considered a sentinel event in the life of an older person, but recent evidence suggests that newly disabled older people have high rates of recovery. The authors studied 754 community-living Americans aged 70+, categorised according to their risk of disability: low, intermediate, high. These participants from the Precipitating Events Project were interviewed each month for 2 years, to determine the presence and severity of disability in four key ADLs: bathing, dressing, walking and transferring. Of the 664 non-decedents, rates of any disability were 7.7%, 48.7% and 65.2% respectively for the three risk groups. Whereas only 6.9% of non-decedents in the low-risk group had more than one month of disability, 38.2% and 50.6% of non-decedents in the intermediate and high risk groups respectively, had multiple months and/or episodes of disability. Patterns of disability were quite diverse; no single pattern represented the disability experience of more than half the decedents or non-decedents in any of the risk groups. The results obtained here provide strong evidence in support of disability as a reversible and often recurrent event. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040406207 A |
| Classmark | BN: QNH: CA: C4: K4: 3J: 7T |
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