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| A comparative study of factors related to carrying out physical activities of daily living (PADL) among 75 year-old men and women in two Nordic localities | | Author(s) | P Laukkanen, E Heikkinen, M Schroll |
| Journal title | Aging: Clinical and Experimental Research, vol 1, no 4, August 1997 |
| Pages | pp 258-267 |
| Keywords | Self care capacity ; Mobility ; Cognitive processes ; Depression ; Ill health ; Sense organ problems ; Cross sectional surveys ; Cross national surveys ; Denmark ; Finland. |
| Annotation | This cross-sectional and cross-national study describes and compares physical activities of daily living (PADL) and factors explaining variation in PADL in two Nordic populations. Some 700 men and women aged 75 and over from Glostrup, Denmark, and Jyväskylä, Finland were interviewed and given a laboratory examination in 1989-90. Tests were given to determine depressive symptoms, cognitive capacity, and selected physical and sensory performance domains. Variables describing physical and psychological health and performance relating to PADL were analysed using four different regression models (by sex and place). Knee extension strength and stair mounting height in three models and walking speed in one model emerged as explanatory factors on the basis of physical performance tests done. In three instances each, sight, hearing, balance and symptoms of illness also explained PADL functioning. Symptoms of depression and cognitive capacity were explanatory factors in one instance each. There were no major differences in the determinants of PADL functioning in the two populations. Physical, psychological and sensory tests provide useful information, complementary to self-reports regarding declining PADL functional capacity. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980423223 A |
| Classmark | CA: C4: DA: ENR: CH: BLP: 3KB: 3K: 76K: 76L |
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