Prevalence and Trends of Basic Activities of Daily Living Limitations in Middle-Aged and Older Adults in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Population-level surveillance of the prevalence and trends of basic self-care limitations will help to identify the magnitude of physical disablement in the rapidly growing older American demographic. We sought to evaluate the prevalence and trends of activities of daily living (ADL) limitations in the United States.

Methods

The analytic sample included 30,418 Americans aged ≥50 years from the 2006-2018 waves of the Health and Retirement Study. ADLs were self-reported. Weighted prevalence estimates were presented, and trends analyses were performed.

Results

Although overall ADL disability prevalence was 16.5% (95% confidence interval: 15.8-17.2) in 2018, there were no changes in limitations during the study period (p = 0.52). Older adults had a great

SUBMITTER: Heimbuch H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10660458 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature