How do self and proxy dependency evaluations agree? Results from a large cohort of older women | Zendy

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How do self and proxy dependency evaluations agree? Results from a large cohort of older women

Author(s) -

Nathalie Bouscaren,

Laureen Dartois,

MarieChristine BoutronRuault,

MarieNoël Vercambre

Publication year - 2018

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/afy071

Subject(s) - medicine , proxy (statistics) , cohort , dependency (uml) , gerontology , statistics , systems engineering , engineering , mathematics

epidemiological studies based on questionnaires can face difficulties when collecting data on functional ability of older people, and may thus use a proxy to obtain or confirm data. It is therefore of importance to compare data from older people and from their proxies, to establish to what extent proxies' answers can be used as a substitute or a complement in epidemiological studies on dependency.

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