Association between physical function and long-term care in community-dwelling older and oldest people: the SONIC study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Preventing the need for long-term care (LTC) by identifying physical function risk factors are important to decrease the LTC burden. The objective of this study was to investigate whether grip strength and/or walking speed, which are components of the frailty definition, are associated with LTC in community-dwelling older and oldest people.

Methods

The participants were 1098 community-dwelling older and oldest people who had not received LTC at the baseline. The endpoint was receiving LTC after the baseline survey. The independent variables were grip strength and walking speed, and participants were divided into two groups based on these variables. The confounding factors were age, sex, the Japanese version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA-J), hypertensi

SUBMITTER: Srithumsuk W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7465312 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature