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| Intertwining courses of functional status and subjective health among older Japanese | | Author(s) | Jersey Liang, Benjamin A Shaw, Joan M Bennett |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 62B, no 5, September 2007 |
| Pages | pp S340-S348 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Mental health [elderly] ; Health [elderly] ; Longitudinal surveys ; Japan. |
| Annotation | The authors used hierarchical linear models and multinomial logistic regression with data from a 5-wave panel study of a national sample of 2200 Japanese older people between 1987 and 1999, to depict the interrelationships between patterns of temporal change in functional status and self-rated health. Trajectories of functional status were associated with the average age-related changes in subjective health. Furthermore, there were significant correlations between the course of functional health and those of self-rated health. Recovery from poor self-rated health was characterised by having poor health and functional ability at baseline. These findings provide an insight into understanding the dynamics between two key dimensions of health in older people in Japan. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080307207 A |
| Classmark | D: CC: 3J: 7DT |
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