Pathways, Contributors, and Correlates of Functional Limitation Across Specialties: Workshop Summary.

ABSTRACT: Traditional clinical care models focus on the measurement and normalization of individual organ systems and de-emphasize aspects of health related to the integration of physiologic systems. Measures of physical, cognitive and sensory, and psychosocial or emotional function predict important health outcomes like death and disability independently from the severity of a specific disease, cumulative co-morbidity, or disease severity measures. A growing number of clinical scientists in several subspecialties are exploring the utility of functional assessment to predict complication risk, indicate stress resistance, inform disease screening approaches and risk factor interpretation, and evaluate care. Because a substantial number of older adults in the community have some form of functional lim

SUBMITTER: Kritchevsky SB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6417483 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature