Changes in Physical Functioning as Short-Term Predictors of Mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Both performance-based and self-reported measures of physical functioning are predictors of mortality. There has been relatively little research examining whether their changes predict mortality. This study examines whether 5-year changes in performance-based and self-reported measures of functioning predict subsequent mortality.

Method

Data are from the 2006 wave of the Social Environment and Biomarkers of Aging Study, 2011 wave of the Taiwan Longitudinal Study of Aging, and mortality follow-up through 2015. Gompertz proportional hazard models predict mortality from changes in ability to complete performance-based tests and changes in performance-based and self-reported functioning.

Results

Incident inability to complete at least one performance-based test

SUBMITTER: Andrasfay T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7768692 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature