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11864798

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-2-26
pubmed:abstractText
It is difficult to distinguish changes in health due to aging from those related to dying, because the two processes are highly related. Some potentially treatable conditions may mistakenly be dismissed as due to old age. The goal of this article was to examine the relationships of aging and of dying to changes in 10 health-related variables: self-rated health, depression, ADLs, IADLs, minimental state examination, body mass index, blocks walked per week, bed days, hospitalization, and walking speed (all coded so that higher values were better). We used longitudinal data from the Cardiovascular Health Study to estimate the changes in the variables associated with 5 years of aging and also in the 5 years before death, controlling for years from death and for age, respectively. All 10 health variables declined as death approached, and most of them also declined with age. The "effect" of the dying process was usually significantly larger than the effect of aging. Large declines in these health measures are probably not due to aging, and should be taken seriously by patients and their providers.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0895-4356
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
55
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
269-78
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
The aging and dying processes and the health of older adults.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Box 357232, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. pdiehr@u.washington.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.