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Everyday activity patterns and sensory functioning in old age
Author(s)	Michael Marsiske, Petra Klumb, Margret M Baltes
Journal title	Psychology and Aging, vol 12, no 3, September 1997
Pages	pp 444-457
Keywords	Mental health [elderly] ; Mobility ; Self care capacity ; Visual impairment ; Hearing Impairment ; Over 70s ; Relational concepts ; Germany.
Annotation	The authors investigated the relationship between visual and auditory acuity and everyday activity functioning. Participants were 516 older adults aged 70-103 from the Berlin Aging Study (BASE). Two categories of everyday activity functioning, perceived competence with basic activities of daily living (BaCo - basic competence) and amount of participation in discretionary social and leisure tasks (ExCo - expanded competence), were examined. Results revealed that sensory acuity, particularly vision, was a significant predictor of both BaCo and ExCo. Indeed, hearing and vision could explain most of the age-related variance in everyday activities. At the same time, in the context of a broader model, evidence for the differential prediction of BaCo and ExCo was found, although there was strong evidence for strong general age-related predictive variance that was common to both measures.
Accession Number	CPA-971120272 A
Classmark	D: C4: CA: BR: BV: BBK: 47: 767
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