Functional Limitations Among Home Health Care Users in the National Health Interview Survey Supplement on Aging
- 1 October 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Gerontologist
- Vol. 32 (5) , 641-646
- https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/32.5.641
Abstract
A case-control study compared home health care (HHC) users from the 1984 Supplement on Aging to users of other community services and of no community service, matched on age and gender. Examination of specific activities of daily living (ADLs), instrumental activities of daily living (lADLs), and sociodemographic variables showed that HHC users were significantly more limited than controls in every ADL and IADL In multivariate analyses, HHC use was significantly associated with three ADLs (dressing, going outside, bathing), two lADLs (shopping, heavy housework), and poor health status.Keywords
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