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Trajectories of ADL disability among community-dwelling frail older persons
Author(s)	Lydia W Li
Journal title	Research on Aging, vol 27, no 1, January 2005
Pages	pp 56-79
Source	http://www.sagepub.com
Keywords	Self care capacity ; Mobility ; Physical disabilities ; Living in the community ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America.
Annotation	This study examines how changes in activity of daily living (ADL) disability of community-living frail older people changes over a 2-year period, and how the pattern of change varies between those who subsequently died or were institutionalised and those continued to live in the community. Multiple waves of data for 3,161 participants aged 65+ from Michigan's Medicaid Waiver Program were analysed using the hierarchical linear modelling (HLM) approach. The results suggest that changes in ADL disability were non-linear, and patterns of change varied by their subsequent status. Participants who subsequently died or were institutionalised exhibited a steep increase in ADL disability during the last few months before the events, whereas continuing community residents were relatively stable in ADL disability during the study period. Within each group, substantial individual variation in ADL disability trajectories exists. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-041222213 A
Classmark	CA: C4: BN: K4: 3J: 7T
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