Journal article
Rethinking Functional Limitation Pathways
The Gerontologist, Vol.40(2), pp.137-146
04/01/2000
DOI: 10.1093/geront/40.2.137
PMID: 10820917
Abstract
Functional limitation has received considerable attention in gerontology and geriatrics. Much of this work has focused on single-wave transitions devoid of context rather than on the pattern of transitions over time that constitute trajectories. This Forum article suggests that it is time for a different way of looking at functional limitation pathways. It focuses on trajectories. Responses to three Rosow and Breslau 1966 and two Nagi 1976 items, asked of 12,998 older adults who participated in up to seven waves of data collection as part of the Established Populations for the Epidemiologic Study of the Elderly, are used to illustrate this approach, emphasizing both its conceptual and pragmatic advantages. The results provide greater clarity in terms of those who become functionally limited, take on more functional limitations, or recover as well as those who are likely to be lost to follow-up and in terms of the outcomes associated with those individuals over time.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Rethinking Functional Limitation Pathways
- Creators
- Fredric D. Wolinsky - Saint Louis UniversityEric S. Armbrecht - Saint Louis University School of Public Health, St. Louis, MOKathleen W. Wyrwich - Saint Louis University School of Public Health, St. Louis, MO
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Gerontologist, Vol.40(2), pp.137-146
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- DOI
- 10.1093/geront/40.2.137
- PMID
- 10820917
- ISSN
- 0016-9013
- eISSN
- 1758-5341
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/01/2000
- Academic Unit
- Health Management and Policy
- Record Identifier
- 9984363667402771
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