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| Environmental press and adaptation to disability in hospitalized live-alone older adults | | Author(s) | Peter A Lichtenberg, Susan E MacNeill, Benjamin T Mast |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 40, no 5, October 2000 |
| Pages | pp 549-556 |
| Keywords | Mobility ; Self care capacity ; Physical disabilities ; Living alone ; Discharge [hospitals] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The study focused on ability in a broad range of personal competencies to predict functional and living arrangements of newly-disabled older people living alone after discharge from hospital. Using path analysis, three of four competency variables collected at admission to hospital (cognition, medical burden, activities of daily living - ADLs) predicted instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) at 3 and 6 months after hospitalisation (e.g. cooking, using the telephone, money management). IADLs, in turn, predicted living arrangements at 3 and 6 months after hospitalisation. The findings provide strong support for the importance of assessing a broad range of competency variables when investigating adaptation to disability. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010130205 A |
| Classmark | C4: CA: BN: K8: LD:QKJ: 7T |
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