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Hospitalization and development of dependence in activities of daily living in a cohort of disabled older women
— the Women's Health and Aging Study I | | Author(s) | Cynthia M Boyd, Qian-Li Xue, Jack M Guralnik |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, vol 60A, no 7, July 2005 |
| Pages | pp 888-893 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Older women ; Physical disabilities ; Admission [hospitals] ; Mobility ; Self care capacity ; Gait loss ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The US Women's Health and Aging Study I (WHAS I) comprises 784 disabled women aged 65+ living in the community. The objective of this study was to determine whether admission to hospital predicts long-term activities of daily living (ADL) dependence in older women who were previously ADL independent although disabled. The authors evaluated participation who were independent in ADLs at baseline and excluded women with incident stroke, lower extremity joint surgery, amputation, or hip fracture. They examined the association between self-reported incident hospital admissions in three consecutive 6-month intervals and incident dependence in at least one ADL at 18 months. Of the 595 evaluated, 32% had at least one admission to hospital; these women were more likely to become dependent in ADLs than those not admitted to hospital (17% vs 8%). Admission to hospital was independently predictive of development of ADL dependence that persisted at 18 months after baseline. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-051103211 A |
| Classmark | BD: BN: LD:QKH: C4: CA: C8G: 3J: 7T |
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