Successful Aging Through Successful Accommodation With Assistive Devices.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To provide a profile of older adults who successfully accommodate declines in capacity by using assistive devices.

Method

Using the National Health and Aging Trends Study, we provide national estimates of prevalent, incident, and persistent successful accommodation of mobility and self-care activity limitations. For incident and persistent accommodation groups, we describe their subjective wellbeing and participation restrictions, health and functioning, demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, and acquisition of assistive devices and environmental features. We estimate regression models predicting incident and persistent successful accommodation and the extent of wellbeing and participation restrictions for incident and persistent groups (vs. those who are

SUBMITTER: Freedman VA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5939874 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature