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Constructions of masculinity and their influence on men's well-being: a theory of gender and health.

Background Functional assessment is an important part of the evaluation of elderly persons. We conducted this study to determine whether objective measures of physical function can predict subsequent disability in older persons. Methods This prospective cohort study included men and women 71 years of age or older who were living in the community, who reported no disability in the activities of daily living, and who reported that they were able to walk one-half mile (0.8 km) and climb stairs without assistance. The subjects completed a short battery of physical-performance tests and participated in a follow-up interview four years later. The tests included an assessment of standing balance, a timed 8-ft (2.4-m) walk at a normal pace, and a timed test of five repetitions of rising from a chair and sitting down. Results Among the 1122 subjects who were not disabled at base line and who participated in the four-year follow-up, lower scores on the base-line performance tests were associated with a statisticall...

Lower-Extremity Function in Persons over the Age of 70 Years as a Predictor of Subsequent Disability

The Physical Activity Scale for the Elderly (PASE): development and evaluation.

Risk factors for functional status decline in community-living elderly people: a systematic literature review.

OBJECTIVES: Social capital consists of features of social organization--such as trust between citizens, norms of reciprocity, and group membership--that facilitate collective action. This article reports a contextual analysis of social capital and individual self-rated health, with adjustment for individual household income, health behaviors, and other covariates. METHODS: Self-rated health ("Is your overall health excellent, very good, good, fair, or poor?") was assessed among 167,259 individuals residing in 39 US states, sampled by the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. Social capital indicators, aggregated to the state level, were obtained from the General Social Surveys. RESULTS: Individual-level factors (e.g., low income, low education, smoking) were strongly associated with self-rated poor health. However, even after adjustment for these proximal variables, a contextual effect of low social capital on risk of self-rated poor health was found. For example, the odds ratio for fair or poor hea...

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Social capital and self-rated health: a contextual analysis.

Risk of functional decline among well elders.

Increases in cancer incidence and mortality reflect the larger numbers of elderly in the population. Using a mortality sample of 1891 biopsy-confirmed cancer patients, analyses reveal older breast, prostate, and cervical-uterine cancer victims were more likely to be diagnosed with metastases. Logistic regression analyses of subsamples of breast (N = 224), lung (N = 513), and colorectal (N = 299) cancer patients indicate that age is significantly inversely related to receipt of both subsequent chemotherapy and radiation therapy, controlling for stage of disease and presence of co-morbid disease. Exceptions to this relationship are the use of radiation therapy among nonmetastatic lung cancer patients and all breast cancer patients. The implications of these findings for current cancer control programs are discussed.

Relationship between age at diagnosis and treatments received by cancer patients.

Failure to recognize symptoms which signal cancer may delay contact with the medical care system, thus decreasing the chances of diagnosis at an early stage of disease. We investigated the determinants of cancer symptom recognition and delay in seeking medical care in a population-based sample of 625 newly diagnosed lung, breast and colorectal cancer patients. Although the majority (79.5%) of patients reported noticing symptoms prior to diagnosis, one quarter of these patients (24.7%) delayed longer than three months in seeking medical care. Contrary to the findings of research based on clinic samples, logistic regression analysis revealed that no demographic or social support factors were predictive of symptom recognition or delay, with the exception that older colorectal cancer patients were less likely to notice symptoms, but also less likely to delay. Lung and colorectal patients diagnosed with advanced disease were more likely to notice symptoms than patients with local disease.

Pre-diagnostic symptom recognition and help seeking among cancer patients.

Changes in the daily living needs of 629 patients with advanced cancer were investigated (1) during and (2) 3 to 6 months after a course of outpatient chemotherapy and/or radiation treatment. The analytic sample consisted of patients completing both baseline and follow-up interviews (n = 434). At both times, the point prevalence of need and unmet need for assistance with personal care, instrumental activities, transportation, and home health tasks was calculated. In addition, the prevalence of new need and unmet need at follow-up was determined as were the rates of resolution of baseline need. The prevalence of need for assistance with personal care increased from 7% at baseline to 16% at follow-up; the dynamic of need acquisition and resolution resulted in relatively constant prevalence rates in other task areas. Acquisition of need at follow-up was associated primarily with disease and treatment-related characteristics. Approximately one third of patients reporting need for assistance during at least one interview did not have enough help. New unmet need at follow-up was associated most strongly with patients' mobility and the ability of their informal support system to provide care. The apparently rapid fluctuation in patients' experience of need and unmet need suggests the necessity for ongoing appraisal of patients' physical condition and social situation.

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The changing needs of patients with cancer at home. A longitudinal view

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Risk of functional decline among well elders.

Relationship between age at diagnosis and treatments received by cancer patients.

Pre-diagnostic symptom recognition and help seeking among cancer patients.

The changing needs of patients with cancer at home. A longitudinal view

Hospice Care Systems: Structure, Process, Costs, and Outcome