Results from the first project phase provided new instruments to screen and to assess functional competence in older people (population-based screening). In the second project phase these will be evaluated according to practicability and usefulness. Furthermore, parts of the results will be used by the health reporting system in Hamburg and for intervention studies performed by LUCAS subprojects during the second project phase (LUCAS II).
The results will provide instruments to screen for preclinical signs of functional decline and concrete recommendations to sustain independence and prevent adverse outcomes in older age in daily practice.
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