Tracking personalized functional health in older adults using geriatric assessments.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Higher levels of functional health in older adults leads to higher quality of life and improves the ability to age-in-place. Tracking functional health objectively could help clinicians to make decisions for interventions in case of health deterioration. Even though several geriatric assessments capture several aspects of functional health, there is limited research in longitudinally tracking personalized functional health of older adults using a combination of these assessments.

Methods

We used geriatric assessment data collected from 150 older adults to develop and validate a functional health prediction model based on risks associated with falls, hospitalizations, emergency visits, and death. We used mixed effects logistic regression to construct the model. The

SUBMITTER: Mishra AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7576843 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature