Impairments and Disability in the Chinese and American Oldest-Old Population

William P. Moran (), Sihan Lv and G. John Chen
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William P. Moran: Medical University of South Carolina, Rutledge Tower, Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics

Chapter Chapter 18 in Healthy Longevity in China, 2008, pp 305-314 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This study used data from the 1998 Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS) and the 1998 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) to compare impairment and disability in the Chinese and American Oldest-Old Populations. The standard measures of activities of daily living (ADL) were utilized for assessing functional impairment in the study subjects. Descriptive and multivariate regression analyses were undertaken to examine differences in functional impairments between Chinese and US oldest-old populations. It was found that the oldest old Chinese were less likely to have difficulties in bathing (OR= 0.748), dressing (OR= 0.555), toileting (OR = 0.838), and transferring (OR= 0.319) compared to the oldest old Americans (p 0.05).

Keywords: Activities of daily living; Age difference; American oldest-old; Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Chinese oldest-old; Comparison; Disability; Gender difference; Impairment; Multivariate analysis; Self-perceived health status; Univariate analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6752-5_18

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