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Predicting mortality from community surveys of older adults
— the importance of self-rated functional ability | | Author(s) | Shulamit L Bernard, Jean E Kincade, Thomas R Konrad |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 52B, no 3, May 1997 |
| Pages | pp S155-S163 |
| Keywords | Self care capacity ; Independence ; Death rate [statistics] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Using data from the 1990 baseline of the US National Survey of Self-Care and Aging (NCSSA), and nearly three years of follow-up mortality data, the authors examined the association between self-rated functional ability, a global measure of perceived ability to function independently, and mortality among a national sample of older adults. The study included 3,485 subjects selected from the Medicare Beneficiary Files in equal numbers by gender and age categories 65-74, 75-84, and 85 and over. Self-rated functional ability was found to have an independent contribution to the subsequent risk of death among older adults. Using multivariate models that accounted for self-rated health, age, gender, medical conditions, functional status, assistance from others, poor self-ratings on this single item nearly doubled the risk of death during the follow-up period. The findings suggest the importance, both for researchers and clinicians, of measuring the potential prognostic importance of self-ratings of health and self-ratings of functional ability among older adults. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-971125257 A |
| Classmark | CA: C3: S5: 7T |
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