Basic ADL disability and functional limitation rates among older americans from 2000-2005: The end of the decline?

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1333-1336

  Fuller Thomson, E ^a   Yu, B ^b   Nuru Jeter, A ^c   Guralnik, J M ^b   Minkler, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Activities of daily living; American Community Survey; Disability; Functional limitations; National Nursing Home Survey

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABILITY; DISABLED PERSON; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISABLED PERSONS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MOBILITY LIMITATION; PAIN MEASUREMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 75949104926     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: 1758535X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/glp130     Document Type: Article

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