Environmental press and adaptation to disability in hospitalized live-alone older adults.

نویسندگان

  • P A Lichtenberg
  • S E MacNeill
  • B T Mast
چکیده

PURPOSE This study examined the ability of personal competency variables at the time of hospital discharge to predict primary instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) and secondary outcomes (living arrangements) in a sample of 194 urban, live-alone, older adults who had a new onset disability. DESIGN AND METHODS Consecutively admitted medical rehabilitation patients, 72% women and 85% African American, participated in the study. Using path analysis, three of the four competency variables collected at the time of hospitalization (cognition, medical burden, activities of daily living) predicted IADLs at 3 and 6 months after hospitalization (e.g., cooking, telephone use, money management). IADLs, in turn, predicted living arrangements at 3 and at 6 months after hospitalization. RESULTS The findings provided strong support for the importance of assessing a broad range of competency variables when investigating adaptation to disability. IMPLICATIONS The increased understanding of adaptation in live-alone older adults with a new-onset disability is particularly timely given the increase in live-alone older adults and the dire consequences associated with change in living arrangement (i.e., mortality and morbidity) in this group.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Gerontologist

دوره 40 5  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2000