ReviewThe Gerontologist2014
Disentangling the disabling process: insights from the precipitating events project.
Review in The Gerontologist, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 74 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
74 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 93 citations in OpenAlex.
- Assessment tools and incidence of hospital-associated disability in older adults: a rapid systematic review.PeerJ · 2023Pooled it
- Resiliency among older adults receiving lung cancer treatment (ROAR-LCT): A novel supportive care intervention for older adults with advanced lung cancer.Journal of geriatric oncology · 2024Trial
- Effects of Reablement on the Independence of Community-Dwelling Older Adults with Mild Disability: A Randomized Controlled Trial.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Trial
- Effect of Hospitalizations on Physical Activity Patterns in Mobility-Limited Older Adults.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2019Trial
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- Physical resilience of older cancer survivors: An emerging concept.Journal of geriatric oncology · 2016Trial
- Association between intrinsic capacity and disability before death among older adults: a decedent cohort study.The lancet. Healthy longevity · 2026Article
- Days at Home After Serious Health Events Among Community-Living Older Persons.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2026Article
- Muscle Dysfunction and Physical Recovery After Critical Illness.Journal of intensive care medicine · 2026Review
- Trends in trajectories and incidence of functional impairment in middle-aged Americans.PloS one · 2026Article
- Post-Discharge COVID-19 Symptoms Predict 1-Year Functional Decline, Falls, and Emergency Department Visits: A Cohort Study.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2025Article
- Critical Illness, Major Surgery, and Other Hospitalizations and Active and Disabled Life Expectancy.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Effects of Medicare Eligibility at Age 65 Among Individuals With and Without Functional Disability.Journal of general internal medicine · 2025Article
- New Disability in a Cohort Study of Older Men-The Manitoba Follow-Up Study.Canadian geriatrics journal : CGJ · 2024Article
- A single item screen for clinically significant insomnia symptoms in community-living older adults.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2024Article
- Predictors of increasing disability in activities of daily living among people with advanced respiratory disease: a multi-site prospective cohort study, England UK.Disability and rehabilitation · 2024Article
- Revisiting unstable disability and the fluctuations of frailty: a measurement burst approach.Age and ageing · 2024Article
- In-Hospital Delirium and Disability and Cognitive Impairment After COVID-19 Hospitalization.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Health Care Expenses and Financial Hardship Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Functional Disability.JAMA network open · 2024Article
14 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Among older persons, disability in activities of daily living is common and highly morbid. The Precipitating Events Project (PEP Study), an ongoing longitudinal study of 754 initially nondisabled, community-living persons, aged 70 or older, was designed to further elucidate the epidemiology of disability, with the goal of informing the development of effective interventions to maintain and restore independent function. Over the past 16 years, participants have completed comprehensive, home-based assessments at 18-month intervals and have been interviewed monthly to reassess their functional status and ascertain intervening events, other health care utilization, and deaths. Findings from the PEP Study have demonstrated that the disabling process for many older persons is characterized by multiple and possibly interrelated disability episodes, even over relatively short periods of time, and that disability often results when an intervening event is superimposed upon a vulnerable host. Given the frequency of assessments, long duration of follow-up, and recent linkage to Medicare data, the PEP Study will continue to be an outstanding platform for disability research in older persons. In addition, as the number of decedents accrues, the PEP Study will increasingly become a valuable resource for investigating symptoms, function, and health care utilization at the end of life.
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