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Functional Disability and Health Care Expenditures for Older Persons

Author(s) -

Terri R. Fried,

Elizabeth H. Bradley,

Christopher S. Williams,

Mary E. Tinetti

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

archives of internal medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1538-3679

pISSN - 0003-9926

DOI - 10.1001/archinte.161.21.2602

Subject(s) - medicaid , medicine , psychosocial , gerontology , health care , long term care , per capita , activities of daily living , population , cohort , environmental health , nursing , psychiatry , economics , economic growth

The rapidly expanding proportion of the US population 65 years and older is anticipated to have a profound effect on health care expenditures. Whether the changing health status of older Americans will modulate this effect is not well understood. This study sought to determine the relationship between functional status and government-reimbursed health care services in older persons.

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