The timed "Up & Go" test and manual button score are useful predictors of functional decline in basic and instrumental ADL in community-dwelling older people

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 497-498

  Okumiya, Kiyohito ^a,b   Matsubayashi, Kozo ^a,b   Nakamura, Tomoko ^a,b   Fujisawa, Michiko ^a,b   Osaki, Yasushi ^a,b   Doi, Yoshinori ^a,b   Ozawa, Toshio ^a,b  

^a KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTION TEST; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PREDICTION; RELIABILITY; RISK FACTOR;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0032905420     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1999.tb07252.x     Document Type: Letter

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