Restricted Activity and Functional Decline Among Community-Living Older Persons
Open Access
- 9 June 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 163 (11) , 1317-1322
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.163.11.1317
Abstract
IN A RECENTLY published report,1 we found that restricted activity, defined as staying in bed for at least half a day and/or cutting down on one's usual activities because of an illness, injury, or other problem,2 is common among community-living older persons, regardless of risk for disability, and is usually attributable to several concurrent health-related problems. Over a median follow-up of 15 months, for example, about 3 of every 4 persons reported restricted activity during at least 1 month, and nearly 40% reported restricted activity during 2 consecutive months.1This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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