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| Functional status, assistance, and the risk of a community-based move | | Author(s) | Michael E Miller, Charles F Longino Jr, Roger T Anderson |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 39, no 2, April 1999 |
| Pages | pp 187-200 |
| Keywords | Mobility ; Health [elderly] ; Cognitive impairment ; Domiciliary services ; Living in the community ; House removal. |
| Annotation | This study examined the effects of declining functional status and the availability of assistance on community-based residential mobility. Data was drawn from the 1984, 1986, 1988 and 1990 waves of the US Longitudinal Study on Aging (LSOA). Using functional health scales developed by F D Wolinsky and colleagues in 1993, and recently available statistical techniques, the authors performed a two-stage analysis of health behaviours. They conclude that older people who report several cognitive limitations in the absence of assistance in the home are more likely to make residential changes. They also determined that the independent effects of cognitive and lower body deterioration trigger, in this case, community-based moves, even when adjusting for the effect of baseline levels of functional health and other factors in the model. The authors' analysis extends Wolinsky et al's earlier findings to encompass residential change as an ecological outcome of health decline in old age. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990723211 A |
| Classmark | C4: CC: E4: N: K4: TNH |
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