ArticleZeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie2012
[Health and competence: detection and decoding using comprehensive assessments in the Longitudinal Urban Cohort Ageing Study (LUCAS)].
Article in Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Health Promotion and Preventive Care Intervention for Older Community-Dwelling People: Long-Term Effects of a Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) within the LUCAS Cohort.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2017Trial
- [Acceptance of preventive home visits among frail elderly persons : Participants an non-participants in a Follow-up after 2 and 4 years within the LUCAS longitudinal study].Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie · 2016Trial
- Community-dwelling older persons' level of functional ability and heat-related vulnerability: results from the Heat-Health Action Plan study in Cologne, Germany.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- The inter-relationship between depressed mood, functional decline and disability over a 10-year observational period within the Longitudinal Urban Cohort Ageing Study (LUCAS).Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2021Observational
- [Effectiveness of "Active health promotion in old age" : Results regarding compression of morbidity by target groups in 13.8 years of observation in LUCAS].Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie · 2018Review
- Long-term prediction of changes in health status, frailty, nursing care and mortality in community-dwelling senior citizens—results from the Longitudinal Urban Cohort Ageing Study (LUCAS).BMC geriatrics · 2014Article
- [Resources and risks in old age: the LUCAS-I marker set for a classification of elderly people as fit, pre-frail and frail. First results on validity from the Longitudinal Urban Cohort Ageing Study (LUCAS), Hamburg].Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie · 2012Article
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Abstract
purposeThe goal of this work was to characterise and distinguish persons without (fit), with earliest signs (pre-frail) or accelerated functional decline (frail) during self-referral (geriatric centre) or preventive home visits.
methodsAfter screening independently living older people in an urban longitudinal cohort (n = 1,995) using a self-administered questionnaire, they were functionally classified as fit, pre-frail or frail. In 10% randomly selected samples of these cohort parts a comprehensive extended gerontological-geriatric assessment (EGGA) was administered.
resultsFit, pre-frail and frail samples are significantly different regarding comorbidity, medication, mobility, fall risk, instrumental activities of daily living and use of social support but not nutrition. The best indicator to discriminate fit versus frail was exhaustion (mobility tiredness).
conclusionCompetence is essential regarding health in old age. Identification of resources and risks by comprehensive assessment is useful before planning interventions to prevent frailty or its progression.
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