Stressful life events among community-living older persons

Transitions between frailty states among community-living older persons.

BACKGROUND Little is known about the natural course of frailty. We performed a prospective study to determine the transition rates between frailty states and to evaluate the effect of the preceding frailty state on subsequent frailty transitions. METHODS We studied 754 community-living persons, aged 70 years or older, who were nondisabled in 4 essential activities of daily living. Frailty, as...

Traumatic and socially stressful life events among persons with social anxiety disorder.

This study examined the frequency of reexperiencing, avoidance, and hyperarousal symptoms most often associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among 45 persons with social anxiety disorder and 30 nonanxious controls in response to an extremely stressful social event (which did not satisfy DSM-IV's PTSD Criterion A). Avoidance and hyperarousal in response to reminders of socially stre...

Presumptive Stressful Life Events Scale (psles) — a New Stressful Life Events Scale for Use in India

Using an open ended question along with Holme's and Rahe's Social Readjustment Rating Schedule on a sample of two hundred adult subjects, a suitable scale of stressful life events experienced by the Indian population was constructed and standardized for two time spaces, that is, last one year and life time. Analysis of various demographic variables for this population revealed no differences on...

Prognostic effect of prior disability episodes among nondisabled community-living older persons.

The objective of this prospective cohort study, conducted in 1998-2002 in New Haven, Connecticut, was to determine the prognostic effect of prior episodes of disability. The analytical sample included 580 community-living persons aged 71 years or older who were nondisabled during an 18-month face-to-face assessment (i.e., zero-time). During monthly telephone interviews, participants were assess...

Gender Differences in Living Arrangements among Older Persons in India*