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The relationship of self-rated function and self-rated health to concurrent functional ability, functional decline, and mortality
— findings from the nun study | | Author(s) | Philip A Greiner, David A Snowdon, Lydia H Greiner |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 51B, no 5, September 1996 |
| Pages | pp S234-S241 |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Self care capacity ; Mobility ; Older women ; Ministers of religion ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The authors investigated the relationship of self-rated function (ability to take care of oneself) and self-rated health to concurrent functional ability, functional decline, and mortality in participants in the Nun Study, a longitudinal study of ageing and Alzheimer's disease (AD). 629 of the 678 participants self-rated their function and health and completed an initial functional assessment between 1991 and 1993, with a second assessment by survivors between 1993 and 1994. Overall, self-rated function had a stronger relationship to functional ability at the first assessment and to functional decline between first and second assessments than did self-rated health. Self-rated function may be a better indicator of global function than is self-rated health, and may be a useful addition to clinical assessment and scientific investigation of the relationships among function, health and disease. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970722011 A |
| Classmark | CC: CA: C4: BD: XR: 7T |
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