Effects of Disease Burden and Functional Adaptation on Morbidity and Mortality on Older Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To ascertain whether older adults with extensive disease but relative vigor (adapters) shorten the period at the end of life in which they live with morbidity (compress morbidity).

Design

Prospective, community-based cohort study in four U.S. cities.

Setting

Cardiovascular Health Study.

Participants

Individuals aged 65 and older.

Measurements

Participants were categorized into three groups according to extent of disease (assessed noninvasively), vigor, and frailty (expected agers (n = 3,528, extent of disease similar to vigor and frailty-reference group), adapters (n = 882, higher disease but vigorous), and prematurely frail (n = 855, lower disease but frail)) and compared according to years of able life (YAL), years of self-reported healthy l

SUBMITTER: Sanders JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4922749 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature