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Comprehensive health status assessment of centenarians
— results from the 1999 Large Health Survey of Veteran Enrollees | | Author(s) | Alfredo J Selim, Graeme Fincke, Dan R Berlowitz |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, vol 60A, no 4, April 2005 |
| Pages | pp 515-519 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Centenarians ; Health [elderly] ; Quality of life ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Information on the health status of centenarians provides a means to understanding the health care needs of this growing population. This study uses data from the 1999 Large Health Survey of Veteran Enrollees. 93 American centenarian veteran enrollees returned a completed health survey questionnaire, which included questions about sociodemographic information, age-associated conditions, health behaviours, health-related quality of life as measured by the Veterans SF-36, and change of health status. These centenarians did not perceive much decline in their physical or mental health during the previous year. Despite having a relatively low prevalence of diseases, centenarian veterans are a group with major impairment across multiple dimensions of health-related quality of life. While they had considerable physical limitations as reflected by their physical health summary scores, their mental health was comparatively good. Compared to younger veterans aged 85-99, centenarians had a lower prevalence of hypertension, angina or myocardial infarction, diabetes and chronic low back pain. These results support future studies of services directed at improvement of function as opposed to those focused solely on the treatment of diseases. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-051103205 A |
| Classmark | BBT: CC: F:59: 4C: 7T |
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