ArticleWomen's midlife health2015
The importance of disability as a health issue for mid-life women.
Article in Women's midlife health, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05279989 (Healthy Weight and Stress Management Study), which is not on this map. Cited by 13 papers.
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- Long-term elevated levels of loneliness are linked to lower health-related quality of life in middle-aged Australian women.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- Caring for Patients with Functional Impairment in Middle Age: Perspectives from Primary Care Providers and Geriatricians.Journal of general internal medicine · 2024Article
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- Mortality and morbidity in ageing men: Biology, Lifestyle and Environment.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2022Review
- Disability prevalence in midlife (aged 55-65 years): Cross-Country comparisons of gender differences and time trends.Women's midlife health · 2021Article
- The urgent need for disability studies among midlife adults.Women's midlife health · 2020Article
- Moving prevention of functional impairment upstream: is middle age an ideal time for intervention?Women's midlife health · 2020Article
- What Women With Disabilities Write in Personal Blogs About Pregnancy and Early Motherhood: Qualitative Analysis of Blogs.JMIR pediatrics and parenting · 2019Article
- Exploring age-related physical and cognitive decline in a nationally representative sample of US women.Women's health (London, England)Article
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Abstract
Data suggest that disability prevalence among mid-aged populations is increasing in recent years; current prevalence estimates for mid-aged adults range from 20 to 40 %. The World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning (ICF) has provided a multi-dimensional biopsychosocial model to understand disability that is highly relevant to mid-aged populations. Under the ICF framework, mid-aged women experience high levels of work, non-work, and mobility-associated disability but very little difficulty with self care. Despite the high prevalence, evidence suggests that there is a large proportion of non-chronic disability and that mid-aged women can both worsen and improve their functioning. Thus, the mid-life period may represent a critical window during which interventions to improve disability may be most efficacious for the improvement of current and future functioning. Interventions that are initiated during the mid-life are highly relevant as a strategy to reduce disability during this life stage and prevent or forestall the onset of late life disability. Targets for intervention include improvement of depressive symptoms and increasing physical activity levels, both of which have shown to be efficacious in older populations and are correlates of mid-life functioning and disability.
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