Disentangling the disabling process: insights from the precipitating events project.

ABSTRACT: Among older persons, disability in activities of daily living is common and highly morbid. The Precipitating Events Project (PEP Study), an ongoing longitudinal study of 754 initially nondisabled, community-living persons, aged 70 or older, was designed to further elucidate the epidemiology of disability, with the goal of informing the development of effective interventions to maintain and restore independent function. Over the past 16 years, participants have completed comprehensive, home-based assessments at 18-month intervals and have been interviewed monthly to reassess their functional status and ascertain intervening events, other health care utilization, and deaths. Findings from the PEP Study have demonstrated that the disabling process for many older persons is characterized by mu

SUBMITTER: Gill TM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4155452 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature