Assistive devices in context: Cross-sectional association between challenges in the home environment and use of assistive devices for mobility

Gerontologist

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 651-660

  Seplaki, Christopher L ^a   Agree, Emily M ^b   Weiss, Carlos O ^c   Szanton, Sarah L ^d   Bandeen Roche, Karen ^e   Fried, Linda P ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging in place; Function (physical mental); Technology

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REHABILITATION; SELF HELP DEVICE; UTILIZATION; WALKING DIFFICULTY; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MOBILITY LIMITATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF-HELP DEVICES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84905060550     PISSN: 00169013     EISSN: 17585341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnt030     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Agree, E. M. (1999). The infuence of personal care and assistive devices on the measurement of disability. Social Science & Medicine (1982), 48, 427-443.
2. Agree, E. M., & Freedman, V. A. (2000). Incorporating assistive devices into community-based long-term care: An analysis of the potential for substitution and supplementation. Journal of Aging and Health, 12, 426-450.
3. Agree, E. M., Freedman, V. A., & Sengupta, M. (2004). Factors infuencing the use of mobility technology in community-based long-term care. Journal of Aging and Health, 16, 267-307.
4. Agree, E., & Hughes, M. E. (2012). Demography of families in later life. In R. Blieszner & V. H. Bedford (Eds.), Handbook of families and aging (2nd ed., pp. 9-34). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.
5. Crystal, S. (2007). Population aging and beneft sustainability: The impact of baby boomer aging on the health care system. In K. W. Schaie & P. Uhlenberg (Eds.), Social structures, demographic changes and the well-being of older persons, societal impact on aging series (pp. 52-70). New York: Springer Publishing Company.
6. Freedman, V. A. (2009). Adopting the ICF language for studying late-life disability: A feld of dreams? Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences, 64, M1172-M1174; discussion 1175. doi:10.1093/gerona/glp095
7. Freedman, V. A., Agree, E. M., Martin, L. G., & Cornman, J. C. (2006). Trends in the use of assistive technology and personal care for late-life disability, 1992-2001. Gerontologist, 46, 124-127.
8. Freedman, V. A., Schoeni, R. F., Martin, L. G., & Cornman, J. C. (2007). Chronic conditions and the decline in late-life disability. Demography, 44, 459-477.
9. Ganesh, S. P., Fried, L. P., Taylor, D. H. Jr, Pieper, C. F., & Hoenig, H. M. (2011). Lower extremity physical performance, self-reported mobility diffculty, and use of compensatory strategies for mobility by elderly women. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 92, 228-235. doi:10.1016/j.apmr.2010.10.012
10. Gitlin, L. N., Jacobs, M., & Earland, T. V. (2010). Translation of a dementia caregiver intervention for delivery in homecare as a reimbursable Medicare service: Outcomes and lessons learned. Gerontologist, 50, 847-854. doi:10.1093/geront/gnq057
11. Gitlin, L. N., Schinfeld, S., Winter, L., Corcoran, M., Boyce, A. A., & Hauck, W. (2002). Evaluating home environments of persons with dementia: Interrater reliability and validity of the Home Environmental Assessment Protocol (HEAP). Disability and Rehabilitation, 24, 59-71.
12. Greenacre, M. J. (2007). Correspondence analysis in practice (2nd ed.). Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall/CRC.
13. Guralnik, J. M., Fried, L. P., Simonsick, E. M., Kasper, J. D., & Lafferty, M. E. (Eds.). (1995). The women's health and aging study: Health and social characteristics of older women with disability. Bethesda, MD: National Institute on Aging; NIH Pub. No. 95-4009. Retrieved from www.grc.nia.nih.gov/ branches/ledb/whasbook/title.htm
14. Guralnik, J. M., Simonsick, E. M., Ferrucci, L., Glynn, R. J., Berkman, L. F., Blazer, D. G., et al. (1994). A short physical performance battery assessing lower extremity function: Association with self-reported disability and prediction of mortality and nursing home admission. Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences 49, M85-M94.
15. Hoenig, H., Ganesh, S. P., Taylor, D. H. Jr, Pieper, C., Guralnik, J., & Fried, L. P. (2006). Lower extremity physical performance and use of compensatory strategies for mobility. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 54, 262-269.
16. Hoenig, H., Giacobbi, P., & Levy, C. E. (2007). Methodological challenges confronting researchers of wheeled mobility aids and other assistive technologies. Disability and Rehabilitation. Assistive Technology, 2, 159-168.
17. Hughes, M. E., & Waite, L. J. (2007). The aging of the second demographic transition. In K.W. Schaie & P. Uhlenberg (Eds.), Social structures: The impact of demographic changes on the well-being of older persons (pp. 179-211). New York: Springer.
18. IOM. (1991). Disability in America: Toward a national agenda for prevention. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
19. IOM. (2007). The future of disability in America. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
20. Iwarsson, S., Wahl, H. W., Nygren, C., Oswald, F., Sixsmith, A., Sixsmith, J., et al. (2007). Importance of the home environment for healthy aging: Conceptual and methodological background of the European ENABLE-AGE Project. Gerontologist, 47, 78-84.
21. Kasper, J. D., Shapiro, S., Guralnik, J. M., Bandeen-Roche, K. J., & Fried, L. P. (1999). Designing a community study of moderately to severely disabled older women: The Women's Health and Aging Study. Annals of Epidemiology, 9, 498-507.
22. Lawton, M. P. (1998). Chapter 1: Environment and aging: Theory revisited. In R. J. Scheidt & P. G. Windley (Eds.), Environment and aging theory: A focus on housing (pp. 1-31). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
23. Lawton, M. P., & Nahemow, L. (1973). Ecology and the aging process. In C. Eisdorfer & M. P. Lawton (Eds.), The psychology of adult development and aging (pp. 619-674). Washington DC: American Psychological Association.
24. Oswald, F., Jopp, D., Rott, C., & Wahl, H. W. (2011). Is aging in place a resource for or risk to life satisfaction? Gerontologist, 51, 238-250. doi:10.1093/geront/gnq096
25. Pressler, K. A., & Ferraro, K. F. (2010). Assistive device use as a dynamic acquisition process in later life. Gerontologist, 50, 371-381. doi:10.1093/geront/gnp170
26. Rowles, G. D., Oswald, F., & Hunter, E. G. (2004). Interior living environments in old age. In H.-W. Wahl, R. Scheidt, & P. G. Windley (Eds.), Annual review of gerontology and geriatrics (aging in context: socio-physical environments) (pp. 167-193). New York: Springer Publishing Company.
27. Scheidt, R. J., & Norris-Baker, C. (2004). The general ecological model revisited: Evolution, current status, and continuing challenges. In H.-W. Wahl, R. J. Scheidt, & P. G. Windley (Eds.), Annual review of gerontology and geriatrics (aging in context: socio-physical environments) (pp. 59-84). New York: Springer Publishing Company.
28. Schoeni, R. F., Freedman, V. A., & Martin, L. G. (2008). Why is late-life disability declining? Milbank Quarterly, 86, 47-89. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0009.2007.00513.x
29. Seplaki, C. L. (2002). The measurement and dynamic analysis of elderly living environment transitions and outcomes. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Retrieved from http://forward.library. wisconsin.edu/catalog/ocm51464057
30. Simonsick, E. M., Maffeo, C. E., Rogers, S. K., Skinner, E. A., Davis, D., Guralnik, J. M., & Fried, L. P. (1997). Methodology and feasibility of a home-based examination in disabled older women: The Women's Health and Aging Study. Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences, 52, M264-M274.
31. Spillman, B. C. (2005). Assistive device use among the elderly: Trends, characteristics of users, and implications for modeling. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute under contract from the Offce of Disability Aging and Long-Term Care Policy, Offce of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
32. StataCorp. (2009). Stata statistical software: Release 11. College Station, TX: StataCorp LP.
33. Thorpe, R. J., Jr, Kasper, J. D., Szanton, S. L., Frick, K. D., Fried, L. P., & Simonsick, E. M. (2008). Relationship of race and poverty to lower extremity function and decline: Findings from the Women's Health and Aging Study. Social Science & Medicine, 66, 811-821. doi:10.1016/j. socscimed.2007.11.005
34. Verbrugge, L. M., & Jette, A. M. (1994). The disablement process. Social Science & Medicine, 38, 1-14.
35. Wahl, H. W., Fänge, A., Oswald, F., Gitlin, L. N., & Iwarsson, S. (2009). The home environment and disability-related outcomes in aging individuals: What is the empirical evidence? Gerontologist, 49, 355-367. doi:10.1093/geront/gnp056
36. Wahl, H. W., Iwarsson, S., & Oswald, F. (2012). Aging well and the environment: Toward an integrative model and research agenda for the future. Gerontologist, 52, 306-316. doi:10.1093/geront/gnr154
37. Wahl, H. W., & Weisman, G. D. (2003). Environmental gerontology at the beginning of the new millennium: Refections on its historical, empirical, and theoretical development. Gerontologist, 43, 616-627.
38. Weiss, C. O., Hoenig, H. M., & Fried, L. P. (2007). Compensatory strategies used by older adults facing mobility disability. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 88, 1217-1220.
39. Wen, C. P., Wai, J. P., Tsai, M. K., Yang, Y. C., Cheng, T. Y., Lee, M. C., et al. (2011). Minimum amount of physical activity for reduced mortality and extended life expectancy: A prospective cohort study. Lancet, 378, 1244-1253. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60749-6
40. Williams, R. (2006). Generalized ordered logit/partial proportional odds models for ordinal dependent variables. The Stata Journal, 6, 58-82. A pre-publication version is available at http://www.nd.edu/~rwilliam/gologit2/ gologit2.pdf