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Improving the measurement of late-life disability in population surveys : beyond ADLs and IADLs : summary of a workshop / Gooloo S. Wunderlich, rapporteur ; Committee on National Statistics ; Committee on Population ; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education ; National Research Council of the National Academies.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (x, 165 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0309143721
  • 9780309143721
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Improving the measurement of late-life disability in population surveys.DDC classification:
  • 614.4/2 22
LOC classification:
  • RA408.5 .I47 2009eb
NLM classification:
  • 2010 B-710
  • WT 30
Online resources:
Contents:
FrontMatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Challenges to Improving Measurement of Late-Life Functioning and Disability -- 3 Potential Methods for Revising Measures to Foster Comparability Across Subgroups -- 4 Improving the Validity of Cross-Population Comparisons -- 5 Measuring Functioning and Disability in Context -- 6 Research and Development Toward Improved Measures of Late-Life Disability -- References -- Appendix A: Population Survey Measures of Functioning: Strengths and Weaknesses -- Barbara M. Altman
Appendix B: Workshop Agenda and PresentersAppendix C: Biographical Sketches of Steering Committee Members -- Committee on Population -- Committee on National Statistics
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FrontMatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Challenges to Improving Measurement of Late-Life Functioning and Disability -- 3 Potential Methods for Revising Measures to Foster Comparability Across Subgroups -- 4 Improving the Validity of Cross-Population Comparisons -- 5 Measuring Functioning and Disability in Context -- 6 Research and Development Toward Improved Measures of Late-Life Disability -- References -- Appendix A: Population Survey Measures of Functioning: Strengths and Weaknesses -- Barbara M. Altman

Appendix B: Workshop Agenda and PresentersAppendix C: Biographical Sketches of Steering Committee Members -- Committee on Population -- Committee on National Statistics

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