Open AccessExploring the Hierarchy of Mobility Performance in High-Functioning Older Women
Author(s) -
Carlos O. Weiss,
Linda P. Fried,
Karen BandeenRoche
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
the journals of gerontology series a
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.134
H-Index - 189
eISSN - 1758-535X
pISSN - 1079-5006
DOI - 10.1093/gerona/62.2.167
Subject(s) - task (project management) , psychological intervention , matching (statistics) , hierarchy , psychology , limited mobility , cognitive psychology , physical medicine and rehabilitation , computer science , medicine , engineering , psychiatry , political science , law , systems engineering , pathology
Preventing mobility disability depends on matching interventions to individual needs. The purpose of this study is to improve targeting by determining whether mobility performance is associated with, and predicts, mobility disability hierarchically. The hypothesis is that poorer performance tested by more demanding tasks is more strongly associated with current and future mobility "limitation" (self-reported task modification or difficulty) than is that tested by less demanding tasks, in a graded manner.
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