OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to address the prevalence of clinically assessed high-frequency hearing impairment (HFHI) and self-reported hearing impairment (SRHI) and examine the association of these hearing assessments with physical and mental functioning in African American and Caucasian women at midlife. METHODS The sample included 467 women who participated in the Michigan Functio...

OBJECTIVES According to Rowe and Kahn (1998), successful aging is the combination of a low probability of disease, high functioning, and active engagement with life. The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between active engagement with life and functioning among the community-dwelling elderly. METHODS Data were collected from Wave 2 of the Suwon Longitudinal Aging Study (SLA...

To select the most useful evaluative outcome measures for early multiple sclerosis, we included 156 recently diagnosed patients in a 3-year follow-up study, and assessed them on 23 outcome measures in the domains of disease-specific outcomes, physical functioning, mental health, social functioning and general health. A global rating scale (GRS) and the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) we...

BACKGROUND Depressive symptoms and decreased physical functioning are interrelated conditions and common in older persons, causing significant individual and societal burden. Evidence suggests that vitamin D supplementation may be beneficial for both mental and physical functioning. However, previous randomized controlled trials have yielded inconsistent results and often had suboptimal designs...

Title of Document: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND EXECUTIVE CONTROL FUNCTIONING AS MODIFIED BY GENOTYPE Joe W. Hearn, Master of Arts, 2007 Directed By: Professor Bradley D. Hatfield Department of Kinesiology As we age, the structure of the brain deteriorates and cognitive functioning declines. The region of the brain that begins to age the fastest is the frontal lobe, in which t...

This study used objective Global Positioning Systems (GPS) to investigate the relationship between pedestrian and vehicle trips to physical, cognitive, and psychological functioning in older adults living in retirement communities. Older adults (N = 279; mean age = 83 ± 6 years) wore a GPS and accelerometer for 6 days. Participants completed standard health measures. The Personal Activity and L...

OBJECTIVES Older age continues to be seen as a period of declining health and functioning. The inevitability of declines, however, may be exaggerated, including declines for those with chronic health conditions. METHODS Data from the MacArthur Study of Successful Aging were used to examine the impact of sociodemographic, health status, health behavior, and social and psychological factors on ...

BACKGROUND Physical activity (PA) has beneficial effects on older age physical functioning, but longitudinal studies with follow-ups extending up to decades are few. We investigated the association between leisure-time PA (LTPA) and occupational PA (OPA) from early to late adulthood in relation to later life performance-based physical functioning. METHODS The study involved 1260 people aged 6...

disturbances in fibromyalgia syndrome: relationship to pain and depression. Sleep disturbance is a widely reported and debilitating concomitant of fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) and plays a pivotal role in exacerbating patients reporting of symptoms. Bigatti and colleagues report a longitudinal study that examined self-reported sleep, pain, depression and physical functioning at baseline in FMS pa...