Increase in Disability Prevalence Before Hip Fracture.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To establish the prevalence and correlates of disability during the 2 years before hip fracture.

Design

Data from participants who experienced hip fracture in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) with hip fracture identified using linked Medicare claims. Each participant was interviewed at varying time points in the 2 years before hip fracture. Disability was defined as self-report of the need for assistance in any activity of daily living (walking across the room, eating, bathing, dressing, using the toilet, transferring). Based on the timing between interview and hip fracture, prevalence of disability was calculated in the cohort as a whole over the 2 years before hip fracture and in subgroups defined according to demographic and clinical characteristics.

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SUBMITTER: Smith AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4699653 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature