Even a small change can make a big difference: the case of in-hospital cognitive decline and new IADL dependency
Author(s) -
Anna Zisberg,
Gary Sinoff,
Maayan Agmon,
Orly Tonkikh,
Nurit GurYaish,
Efrat Shadmi
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
age and ageing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.014
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1468-2834
pISSN - 0002-0729
DOI - 10.1093/ageing/afw063
Subject(s) - activities of daily living , medicine , incidence (geometry) , odds ratio , odds , cognition , gerontology , cohort study , cognitive decline , cohort , long term care , acute care , physical therapy , dementia , health care , logistic regression , psychiatry , disease , physics , economic growth , optics , economics
post-hospitalisation functional decline is a widely described phenomenon, yet factors related to new disability in instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) in previously independently functioning older adults are rarely studied.
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