Behavioral Adaptation and Late-Life Disability: A New Spectrum for Assessing Public Health Impacts
Author(s) -
Vicki A. Freedman,
Judith D. Kasper,
Brenda C. Spillman,
Emily M. Agree,
Vincent Mor,
Robert B. Wallace,
Douglas A. Wolf
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2013.301687
Subject(s) - receipt , gerontology , quality of life (healthcare) , ethnic group , adaptation (eye) , accommodation , public health , activities of daily living , medicine , health and retirement study , psychology , psychiatry , nursing , political science , neuroscience , world wide web , computer science , law
To inform public health efforts to promote independent functioning among older adults, we have provided new national estimates of late-life disability that explicitly recognize behavioral adaptations.
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