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SUBMITTER: Taylor MG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5933052 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Taylor Miles G MG Lynch Scott M SM Ureña Stephanie S
Journal of aging and health 20161109 2
<h4>Objective</h4>Disability declined in lower levels of impairment during the late 20th century. However, it is unclear whether ADL disability also declined, or whether it did so across race. In this study, we examine cohorts entering later life between 1984 and 1999, by race, to understand changing ADL disability.<h4>Method</h4>We used latent class methods to model trajectories of ADL disability and subsequent mortality in the National Long-Term Care Survey among cohorts entering older adultho ...[more]