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| The prevalence of diagnoses, impairments, disabilities and handicaps in a population of elderly people living in a defined geographical area: the Gospel Oak project | | Author(s) | R H Harwood, M J Prince, A H Mann |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 27, no 6, November 1998 |
| Pages | pp 707-714 |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Mobility ; Self care capacity ; Physical disabilities ; Cognitive processes ; Longitudinal surveys ; Camden. |
| Annotation | This article presents cross-sectional data from the third Gospel Oak survey on the prevalence of impairments, disabilities and handicaps. A total of 654 residents over the age of 65 years were interviewed from a register of 889. A random sample of 225 had additional data collected which are reported in this analysis. Results revealed that participants had a median of three reported diagnoses and two impairments. Forty-three percent were in the least disabled Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS) disability category and 41% were able to undertake all of 12 basic activities of daily living (ADLs) without difficulty. Overall handicap scores were heavily skewed towards no health-related disadvantage. All indicators showed deteriorating health with increasing age, but age-adjusted gender differences were small. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990208224 A |
| Classmark | CC: C4: CA: BN: DA: 3J: 82L8 |
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