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Who walks?
— factors associated with walking behaviour in disabled older women with and without self-reported walking difficulty | | Author(s) | Eleanor M Simonsick, Jack M Guralnik, Linda P Fried |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 47, no 6, June 1999 |
| Pages | pp 672-680 |
| Keywords | Mobility ; Ambulant ; Musculoskeletal systems ; Older women ; Physical disabilities ; Gait loss ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Because walking is central to many basic activities of daily life (ADLs) and a critical component of self-sufficiency, this study examines usual walking amount. It comprises cross-sectional analyses of baseline data from the US Women's Health and Aging Study (WHAS) of 920 moderately to severely disabled, community-dwelling women aged 65 and over in Baltimore, Maryland (MD). Walking behaviour was defined as minutes walked for exercise and total blocks walked per week. Independent variables included self-reported walking difficulty, sociodemographic factors, psychological status (depression, mastery, anxiety and cognition), and health-related factors (falls and fear of falling, fatigue, vision and balance problems, weight, smoking, and use of a stick). Walking at least 8 blocks per week was strongly negatively related to severity of walking difficulty. Independent of difficulty level, older age, black race, fatigue, obesity, and use of a stick were also negatively associated with walking. Living alone and high mastery had a positive association with association with walking. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990825311 A |
| Classmark | C4: C4A: BK6: BD: BN: C8G: 3F: 7T |
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