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Mobility disability in the middle-aged
— cross sectional associations in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing | | Author(s) | David Melzer, Elizabeth Gardener, Jack M Guralnik |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 34, no 6, November 2005 |
| Pages | pp 594-602 |
| Source | http://www.ageing.oupjournals.org |
| Keywords | Physical disabilities ; Middle aged ; Mobility ; Pain ; Cross sectional surveys. |
| Annotation | Mobility disability is an early sign of the disability process in older people. The authors used cross sectional interview data for 11,392 community-living respondents aged 50+ from the 2002 English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA): Mobility status, based on reported difficulty walking a quarter of a mile. In the middle aged, 8% of women and 9% of men reported having much difficulty or being unable to walk that distance, equating to 787,000 people in England. Factors which at least doubled the odds of mobility disability for those aged 50-64 were chronic obstructive lung disease, angina, stroke, recently treated cancer, comorbidity, and lower-limb or back pain. Factors associated with mobility disability in older groups were similar. 38% of mobility disability in the middle-aged population was related to high levels of lower limb pain and 15% in high levels of back pain. Given these factors, prevention of later disability progression may require more attention being paid to mobility difficulties and its causes in the middle-aged. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060202211 A |
| Classmark | BN: SE: C4: CT7: 3KB |
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