Development of a risk assessment scale predicting incident functional disability among older people: Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

The aim of the present study was to develop a risk assessment scale for predicting incident functional disability among older adults.

Methods

We used prospective cohort data from the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study, a nationwide survey of 90 889 functionally independent older people collected from 23 municipalities. The incidence of functional disability was determined from long-term care information obtained from municipal insurance databases. We constructed a Cox proportional hazards model with forward stepwise selection that used sex, age, and 12 of the essential items of the Public Survey of Long-Term Care Prevention and Needs in Spheres of Daily Life (the Needs Survey). We assigned a score based on the obtained non-standardized regression coefficients for each

SUBMITTER: Tsuji T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6220974 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature