ArticleThe journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences2019
Gendered Expectations Distort Male-Female Differences in Instrumental Activities of Daily Living in Later Adulthood.
Article in The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
36 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Scales to Detect Cognitive Impairment and Dementia in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2021Pooled it
- Cohabitation and unmet care needs in later life.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2026Article
- Educational inequalities in disability at the end of life across European welfare regimes.SSM - population health · 2026Article
- Male Spousal Caregivers Are Increasing, but Only in Less Demanding Care Roles.Journal of marriage and the family · 2026Article
- Evaluating sex and gender as separate and interactive predictors of memory aging trajectory classes: an integrative data-driven approach.Biology of sex differences · 2026Article
- Sex Differences in Instrumental Activities of Daily Living and Transportation Modes by Driving Status Among Older Adults.Occupational therapy international · 2026Article
- A decade of difference: cross-continental patterns of functional performance in Brazil and Europe within the WHO ICOPE framework.PloS one · 2026Observational
- Predicting the onset of dementia with longitudinal performance-based measures of physical function.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Article
- Pre-fracture functional status and 30-day recovery predict 5-year survival in patients with hip fracture: findings from a prospective real-world study.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2025Observational
- Article
- Physical Fitness of the Older Adult Community Living in Leiria, Portugal.Epidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Identifying Functional Status Impairment in People Living With Dementia Through Natural Language Processing of Clinical Documents: Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- Article
- Article
- Inequalities in health-related quality of life and functional health of an aging population: A Canadian community perspective.PloS one · 2024Article
- Gender Selectively Mediates the Association Between Sex and Memory in Cognitively Normal Older Adults.Innovation in aging · 2024Article
- Disparities in First Instrumental Activity of Daily Living Difficulty between Black and White Older Adults: Findings from the Advanced Cognitive Training in Independent and Vital Elderly Study.Journal of aging and health · 2023Article
- Transitions across states with and without difficulties in performing activities of daily living and death: a longitudinal comparison of ten European countries.European journal of ageing · 2023Article
- Changes in Community-Dwelling Elderly's Activity and Participation Affecting Depression during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- The interdisciplinary fracture liaison service improves health-related outcomes and survival of older adults after hip fracture surgical repair.Archives of osteoporosis · 2022Observational
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
Abstract
objectivesThe ability of older adults to live independently is often assessed with a battery of questions known as Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs). Many of these questions query the difficulty conducting household activities that have been predominantly conducted by women (e.g., the ability to prepare a meal), especially for cohorts now in old age. Although previous research has documented gender differences in IADL limitations, it has not been documented whether IADLs equivalently measure the same latent construct for men and women.
methodsWe apply psychometric tests of measurement invariance to data from the 1998 Health and Retirement Study. We then estimate corrected models that account for violations of measurement invariance across genders.
resultsWe find that IADLs do not equivalently measure same latent construct for men and women. We find that men are more likely not to do the IADL activities for reasons unrelated to health limitations, which may reflect gendered expectations regarding household activities. Accounting for this we still find that women report greater health-related IADL limitations than men. DISCUSSION: Researchers should be cautious making gender comparisons for IADLs without attending to the gender-specific measurement properties of many of the items of which the IADL is comprised.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.