The delineation of the interrelationships between cognitive and physical functioning in older adults is critical to determining pathways to disability. By using longitudinal data from 395 initially high-functioning, communitydwelling older women in Baltimore, Maryland, from the Women’s Health and Aging Study II (from 1994 to 2006), we simultaneously assessed associations of cognition with later...

BACKGROUND Studies have reported declines with age in cognitive or physical functioning, but rarely identify whether these are parallel or linked events in the same study. Furthermore, most research in this area has focused on persons in late life rather than midlife. OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to determine (1) if cognitive functioning was related to physical functioning and whe...

BACKGROUND The number of diseases and physical functioning difficulties tend to increase with age. The aim of this study was to examine the trajectories of physical functioning across age groups and whether the trajectories differ according to disease status in different population subgroups. METHODS Repeat data from a nationally representative population sample, the Health and Retirement Stu...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To propose a conceptual model to guide the design of intervention studies to improve physical functioning in cancer survivors. DATA SOURCES Conceptualizations of physical functioning in people without cancer and exercise studies in breast cancer survivors. DATA SYNTHESIS Most exercise studies measured only one of three possible dimensions of physical functioning, and medi...

Introduction: Quality of life is individuals’ perception of their status in life in the context of the culture and value systems they live in. Pregnancy has a great impact on mothers and their quality of life. Prenatal classes provide mothers with information about pregnancy, labor process and newborn care. Objective:The present study was conducted to evaluate the effect of prenata...

heart failure (hf) is a common disease with high health care costs and high mortality rate knowledge of the health-related quality of life (qol) outcomes of hf may guide decision making and be useful in assessing new therapies for population. yet little is known about qol of hf patients in iran. objectives: to assess health related qol of patients with hf with two different instrument and to co...

BACKGROUND Better physical functioning in the elderly may be associated with higher physical activity levels. Since older adults spend a substantial part of the day in their residential neighborhood, the neighborhood physical environment may moderate associations between functioning and older adults' physical activity. The present study investigated the moderating role of the objective and perc...

OBJECTIVE To validate Kalache & Kickbusch's model: namely, that functional capacity peaks in early adulthood, then declines at a rate dependent on fitness level until a "disability threshold" is reached. METHODS Data came from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health, which followed three cohorts from 1996 to 2011: a young, a mid-aged and an older cohort (born in 1973-78, 1946-51 a...

BACKGROUND the factors that moderate decline in physical functioning as death approaches are understudied. This study aimed to assess death-related decline in global quality of life (QoL) and physical functioning and to test whether baseline QoL moderates terminal decline in physical functioning. METHODS four thousand six hundred and fifty-one decedents from the Women's Health Initiative Stud...