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Risk and protective factors of different functional trajectories in older persons
— are these the same? | | Author(s) | Gertrudis I J M Kempen, Adelita V Ranchor, Eric van Sonderen |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 61B, no 2, March 2006 |
| Pages | pp P95-P101 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Depression ; At risk ; Indicators ; Well being ; Adjustment ; Physical disabilities ; Longitudinal surveys ; Netherlands. |
| Annotation | 1765 Dutch older people, participants in the Groningen Longitudinal Aging Study (GLAS), were assessed for disability in 1993 and again in 2001 regarding risk and protective factors. In 2001 as compared to 1993, the authors distinguished three groups of disability functioning trajectories: substantially poorer, somewhat poorer, and no change or better functioning. They assessed sociodemographic, health and psychosocial risk or protective factors in 1993. When analysed separately, risk and protective factors had similar (but mirrored) associations with functional trajectories. However, in a multivariate approach, the authors identified old age, depressive symptoms, and low mastery as risk factors for functional decline, whereas they identified young age, good perceived health and self-efficacy expectancies as factors that predicted trajectories of healthy functioning. Risk and protective factors of functional trajectories in older people are not the same. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070504201 A |
| Classmark | ENR: CA3: 3RI: D:F:5HH: DR: BN: 3J: 76H |
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