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| Trends in disability and disability-free life expectancy among elderly people in Spain : 1986-1999 | | Author(s) | Jon Sagardui-Villamor, Pilar Guallar-Castillon, Margarita Garcia-Ferruelo |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, vol 60A, no 8, August 2005 |
| Pages | pp 1028-1034 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Physical disabilities ; Good Health ; Life expectancy tables ; Longitudinal surveys ; Spain. |
| Annotation | Data drawn from National Disability, Impairments and Handicap Surveys conducted by Spain's National Statistics Institute (Instituto Nacional de Estadistica) in 1986 and 1999 were used in this study of disability trends in people aged 65+. Only severe disability was studied, but disabilities overcome through use of external technical aids were included. From 1986 to 1999, a relative annual decline of 3.7% in overall disability was observed for men. The decline was somewhat less marked for women, participants aged 75+, and those with the lowest level of education. In men, there was a relative annual decline of just 3% in walking and hearing disabilities, of under 1% in seeing and cognitive disabilities, and a slight rise in self-care disability. Trends among women were similar, though self-care disability rose by 1.78%. In the period 1986-1999, total and disability-free life expectancy rose across all age groups in both sexes. In men aged 65+, the proportion of life expectancy with disability fell from 42.1% in 1986 to 21.6% in 1999; the comparable figures for women were 49.8% in 186 and 30.6% in 1999. Indeed, a reduction in life expectancy with disability was observed even in those age 80+. Form 1986 to 1999, prevalence of severe disability in Spanish older people decreased substantially, and the decrease of life with disability was compressed between a later onset and time of death. Among women, however, self-care disability - the type of disability requiring more social resources for its attention - underwent a steep rise. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-051103214 A |
| Classmark | BN: CD: S7: 3J: 76S |
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