Trends in activities of daily living disability in a large sample of community-dwelling Chinese older adults in Hong Kong: An age-period-cohort analysis

BMJ Open

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2016, Pages

  Yu, Ruby ^a   Wong, Moses ^a   Chang, Billy ^a   Lai, Xin ^a   Lum, C M ^b   WAuyeung, T ^a   Lee, Jenny ^a   Tsoi, Kelvin ^a   Lee, Ruby ^c   Woo, Jean ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SHATIN HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^c DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADL DISABILITY; AGED; ARTICLE; BATH; CHINESE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY LIVING; COMORBIDITY; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEEDING; FEMALE; GROOMING; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH STATUS; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; TOILETING; VERY ELDERLY; WALKING; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABILITY; DISABLED PERSON; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SURVEYS; HONG KONG; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 85006989648     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013259     Document Type: Article

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