“…The explanatory variables considered as potential predictive factors of independence trajectory included sociodemographic: age, sex, occupation, educational level, place of housing, type of housing, place of residence, marital status, lifestyle, monthly income, financial, human and technical assistance, hobbies, association membership. The health-related variables were: comorbidities [9], daily medications [37], urinary incontinence, anal incontinence, visual disorder, auditory disorder, and communication disorder. Cognitive ability measures consisted the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) [6,27,37].…”