Vicki A. Freedman

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated survey quality according to 10 criteria, ranked the surveys as good, fair, or poor, and calculated for each outcome the average annual percent change.

TL;DR: Assessment of the quality, quantity, and consistency of recent evidence on US trends in the prevalence of self-rated old age disability and physical, cognitive, and sensory limitations during the late 1980s and 1990s and to evaluate the evidence on trends in disparities by major demographic groups found several measures of old year disability and limitations have shown improvements.

TL;DR: How caregivers' involvement in older adults' health care activities relates to caregiving responsibilities, supportive services use, and caregiving-related effects is examined.

TL;DR: A technical working group met to resolve previously published inconsistencies across national surveys in trends in activity limitations among the older population and found consistent declines on the order of 1%–2.5% per year for two commonly used measures in the disability literature.

TL;DR: Changes in population composition, device use, survey design, role expectations, and living environments do not appear to account completely for improvements in functioning, and it is inferred that changes in under-lying physiological capability--whether real or perceived--likely underlie such trends.