Disentangling the Roles of Disability and Morbidity in Survival to Exceptional Old Age | Zendy

Dellara F. Terry | Zendy; Paola Sebastiani | Zendy; Stacy L. Andersen | Zendy; Thomas T. Perls | Zendy

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Disentangling the Roles of Disability and Morbidity in Survival to Exceptional Old Age

Author(s) -

Dellara F. Terry,

Paola Sebastiani,

Stacy L. Andersen,

Thomas T. Perls

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

archives of internal medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1538-3679

pISSN - 0003-9926

DOI - 10.1001/archinternmed.2007.75

Subject(s) - medicine , barthel index , stroke (engine) , gerontology , activities of daily living , dementia , diabetes mellitus , osteoporosis , physical therapy , pediatrics , disease , mechanical engineering , endocrinology , engineering

Although it is commonly held that survival to age 100 years entails markedly delaying or escaping age-related morbidities, nearly one-third of centenarians have age-related morbidities for 15 or more years. Yet, we have previously observed that many centenarians compress disability toward the end of their lives. Therefore, we hypothesize that for some centenarians, compression of disability rather than morbidity is a key feature for survival to old age.

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