Measuring the Activities of Daily Living: Comparisons Across National Surveys
| Autor: | J F Van Nostrand, J M Wiener, R Clark, R J Hanley |
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| Rok vydání: | 1990 |
| Předmět: |
Aging
medicine.medical_specialty Activities of daily living Home Nursing Population Sample (statistics) Disability Evaluation Survey methodology Meta-Analysis as Topic Activities of Daily Living Humans Medicine Everyday life education Aged education.field_of_study business.industry Data Collection Percentage point humanities Sample size determination Toileting Physical therapy business human activities Demography |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Gerontology. 45:S229-S237 |
| ISSN: | 0022-1422 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/geronj/45.6.s229 |
| Popis: | The "activities of daily living," or ADLs, are the basic tasks of everyday life, such as eating, bathing, dressing, toileting, and transferring. Reported estimates of the size of the elderly population with ADL disabilities differ substantially across national surveys. Differences in which ADL items are being measured and in what constitutes a disability account for much of the variation. Other likely explanations are differences in sample design, sample size, survey methodology, and age structure of the population to which the sample refers. When essentially equivalent ADL measures are compared, estimates for the community-based population vary by up to 3.1 percentage points; and for the institutionalized population, with the exception of toileting, by no more than 3.2 percentage points. As small as these differences are in absolute terms, they can be large in percent differences across surveys. For example, the National Medical Expenditure Survey estimates that there are 60 percent more elderly people with ADL problems than does the Supplement on Aging. |
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