Participation in Physical, Cognitive, and Social Activities and the Association with Mobility Disability Transitions in Older Adults.

ABSTRACT: Development of late-life mobility disability is a dynamic process of transitions between worsening and improving. We tested associations between participation in physical, social, and cognitive activity with mobility disability transitions. Participants (N=2,758, age 78.1 years [SD: 7.7]) from two Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center cohorts completed annual mobility disability questionnaires for 7.6 (SD: 4.4) years. First-order Markov transition models tested associations between baseline self-reported physical, social, and cognitive activity with bidirectional transitions in mobility disability score increases (worsening) and decreases (improving) between consecutive visits. Overall, 75.5% of participants experienced ≥1 transition among 18,318 pairs of consecutive visits-4,174 of which were w

SUBMITTER: Lange-Maia BS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12234217 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature