Longitudinal association between depressive symptoms and disability burden among older persons

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1325-1332

  Barry, Lisa C ^a   Allore, Heather G ^a   Bruce, Martha L ^b   Gill, Thomas M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Depression; Disability; Prospective studies; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 75949091671     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: 1758535X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/glp135     Document Type: Article

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