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Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, Vol 51, Issue 5 S234-S241, Copyright © 1996 by The Gerontological Society of America
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PA Greiner, DA Snowdon and LH Greiner
Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, USA. nunnet@www.coa.uky.edu
We investigated the relationship of self-rated function (i.e., the ability to take care of oneself) and self-rated health to concurrent functional ability, functional decline, and mortality in participants in the Nun Study, a longitudinal study of aging and Alzheimer's disease. A total of 629 of the 678 study participants self-rated their function and health and completed an initial functional assessment in 1991-93. Survivors completed a second assessment in 1993-94. Overall, self-rated function had a stronger relationship to functional ability at the first assessment and to functional decline between the first and second assessments than did self-rated health. Self-rated function also had a stronger relationship to mortality than did self-rated health. Self-rated function may be a better marker of global function than is self-rated health and may be a useful addition to clinical assessment and scientific investigation of the relationships among function, health, and disease.
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