Trends of Activities of Daily Living Disability Situation and Association with Chronic Conditions among Elderly Aged 80 Years and Over in China.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

In China, few studies reported the disability situation and the association between disabilities with chronic conditions in aged people. This study investigates the cross-sectional trends of prevalence and severity of activities of daily living disability (ADL) in Chinese oldest-old people from 1998 to 2008, and identified the potential risk factors of disability.

Design

A combination of population-based longitudinal prospective study and probabilistically sampling cross-sectional studies.

Setting

The Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS) was based on a random sampling of aged people from twenty-two provinces in China.

Participants

A total of 52,667 participants aged from 80 years old to 105 years old sampled in the year of 1998 (n=8,

SUBMITTER: Hou C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12275562 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature