Manual Dexterity as a Correlate of Dependency in the Elderly
- 1 October 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
- Vol. 37 (10) , 963-969
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-5415.1989.tb07282.x
Abstract
Physical and mental correlates of dependent living were determined in 128 Catholic sisters (nuns), aged 75 to 94 years, who had similar social support systems and lifestyles. The primary a priori hypothesis was that poor manual dexterity would correlate strongly with living in the nursing home. Stepwise discriminant analysis indicated that manual dexterity explained 51% of the vairance in the sisters'' residential living site (ie, nursing home, retirement home, or living in community). The discriminant analysis equation using manual dexterity predicted living site correctly for 63% of the sisters in the nursing home with a specificity of 99%, a positive predictive value of 96% and a negative predictive value of 84%. The addition of age and mental status to the equation improved the prediction only slightly.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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