ArticleJournal of the American Geriatrics Society2012
All-cause 1-, 5-, and 10-year mortality in elderly people according to activities of daily living stage.
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Abstract
objectivesTo examine the independent association between five stages of activities of daily living (ADLs) and mortality after accounting for known diagnostic and sociodemographic risk factors.
designFor five stages of ADLs (0 to IV), determined according to the severity and pattern of ADL limitations, unadjusted life expectancies and adjusted associations with mortality were estimated using a Cox proportional hazards regression model.
settingCommunity.
participantsNine thousand four hundred forty-seven participants aged 70 and older from the second Longitudinal Study of Aging. MEASUREMENTS: One-, 5-, and 10-year survival and time to death.
resultsMedian life expectancy was 10.6 years for participants with no ADL limitations and 6.5, 5.1, 3.8, and 1.6 years for those at ADL stages I, II, III, and IV, respectively. The sociodemographic- and diagnostic-adjusted hazard of death at 1 year was five times as great at stage IV as at stage 0 (hazard ratio = 5.6, 95% confidence interval = 3.8-8.3). The associations between ADL stage and mortality declined over time but remained statistically significant at 5 and 10 years.
conclusionADL stage continued to explain mortality risk after adjusting for known risk factors including advanced age, stroke, and cancer. ADL stages might aid clinical care planning and policy as a powerful prognostic indicator particularly of short-term mortality, improving on current ADL measures by profiling activity limitations of relevance to determining community support needs.
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