Aging in the Eighties: Functional Limitations of Individuals Age 65 Years and Over

Dawson, Deborah A.; Hendershot, Gerry E.; Fulton, Janet E.

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“…Western ADL measures, for instance, typically include inquiry into feeding self, although fewer than 2% of community residents 65 years of age or older have problems with this activity. Indeed bathing, the personal self-maintenance activity with which the largest percentage of those 65 years of age and over report difficulty [15,16], can still be performed by 90% of them.…”

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“…In developing this measure we were guided by a basic practical [8] and theoretical [7] approach, and selected items accordingly. Assessment of Western ADL scales indicates that older people and those with less education and poorer cognitive functioning tend to have a lower level of ADL performance [15][16][17][18][19][20]; relationship to gender is ambiguous [21]. We examined our 11-item measure to determine whether it exhibited comparable relationships.…”

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Development of an activities of daily living scale to screen for dementia in an illiterate rural older population in India

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Objective: to develop a measure of activities of daily living appropriate for use in assessing the presence of dementia in illiterate rural elderly people in India. Design: identification of relevant items, pre-testing of items and refinement of administrative procedures and scoring in four successive groups of 30 subjects each, pilot testing in a group of 100 subjects comparable to those for whom the measure is intended, administration to a representative sample of 387 people aged 55 and older, and assessment of the reliability of the final measure. Setting and subjects: age-stratified random sample of older men and women in rural areas of Ballabgarh, Northern India Results: the original pool of 35 items covering mobility, instrumental and personal care activities was reduced to an 11-item unidimensional scale (to which an additional item on mobility was added) with internal consistency (Cronbach's a) = 0.82, perfect inter-and intra-rater reliability, test-retest reliability (intraclass correlation) = 0.82 (any disability) and 0.92 (unable to perform for 'mental' reasons). Women, older subjects, the totally illiterate and subjects with poorer cognitive function performed significantly more poorly (P Յ 0.02 for all). Product: a brief, reliable and valid activities of daily living measure, with norms, which is appropriate for use in assessing dementia in illiterate rural elderly people in India.

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Development of an activities of daily living scale to screen for dementia in an illiterate rural older population in India

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“…The National Center for Health Statistics estimates that 84% of persons aged 65 and older who are dependent in basic or instrumental activities of daily living reside in the community (1). As functional dependency becomes more prevalent, an associated increase in utilization of health care services, admission to nursing homes, and excess mortality may occur (2)(3)(4). Therefore, understanding the etiology of functional dependency and potential for reversibility assumes critical importance.…”

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Association of Muscle Power With Functional Status in Community-Dwelling Elderly Women

Foldvari¹,

Clark²,

Laviolette³

et al. 2000

The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and M

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Background. Identification of the physiologic factors most relevant to functional independence in the elderly population is critical for the design of effective interventions. It has been suggested that muscle power may be more directly related to impaired physical performance than muscle strength in elderly persons. We tested the hypothesis that peak muscle power is closely associated with self-reported functional status in sedentary elderly community-dwelling women.

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“…Normal daily activities, and recreational activities, can be affected as a result of age-related loss of muscle mass and strength [8]. It has been demonstrated that the average 80-yearold no longer retains the capacity to rise unassisted from a chair [8]. Even more striking are recent data demonstrating that the degree of sarcopenia evident among the aged serves as a significant predictor of all-cause mortality [25].…”

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Age-Related Changes in Skeletal Muscle Activation Following Short-Term Resistance Training

Hartman

Cramer

Bemben

et al. 2008

Medicine &Amp; Science in Sports &Amp; Exercise

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Aging in the Eighties: Functional Limitations of Individuals Age 65 Years and Over

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Development of an activities of daily living scale to screen for dementia in an illiterate rural older population in India

Development of an activities of daily living scale to screen for dementia in an illiterate rural older population in India

Association of Muscle Power With Functional Status in Community-Dwelling Elderly Women

Age-Related Changes in Skeletal Muscle Activation Following Short-Term Resistance Training

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