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Title: Improving the Measurement of Late-Life Disability in Population Surveys
Condition: New
 Subtitle: Beyond ADLs and IADLs: Summary of a Workshop
Contributor: Gooloo S. Wunderlich (Edited by)
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0309143713
EAN: 9780309143714
ISBN: 9780309143714
Publisher: National Academies Press
Genre: Science Nature & Math
Topic: Society & Culture, Social Sciences
Release Date: 29/11/2009
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Author: No Author
Release Year: 2009
Description:

Improving the Measurement of Late-Life Disability in Population Surveys summarizes a workshop organized to draw upon recent advances to improve the measurement of physical and cognitive disability in population surveys of the elderly population. The book questions whether or not the measures of activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living used in many population surveys are sufficient as the primary survey-based indicators of late-life disability. If not, should they be refined or should they be supplemented by other measures of disability in surveys? If yes, in what ways should disability measures be changed or modified to produce population estimates of late-life disability and to monitor trends? The book also discusses what further research is needed to advance this effort.

Table of Contents
  • Front Matter
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Challenges to Improving Measurement of Late-Life Functioning andDisability
  • 3 Potential Methods for Revising Measures to Foster ComparabilityAcross Subgroups
  • 4 Improving the Validity of Cross-Population Comparisons
  • 5 Measuring Functioning and Disability in Context
  • 6 Research and Development Toward Improved Measures of Late-LifeDisability
  • References
  • Appendix A: Population Survey Measures of Functioning: Strengthsand Weaknesses--Barbara M. Altman
  • Appendix B: Workshop Agenda and Presenters
  • Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Steering Committee Members
  • Committee on Population
  • Committee on National Statistics

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