Functional Impairment and Decline in Middle Age: A Cohort Study.

Conclusion: Functional impairment and decline are common in middle age, as are transitions from impairment to independence and back again. Because functional decline in older adults has similar features, current interventions used for prevention in older adults may hold promise for those in middle age.
Primary Funding Source: National Institute on Aging and National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through the University of California, San Francisco, Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute.
PMID: 29132150 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Annals of Internal Medicine - November 14, 2017 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Brown RT, Diaz-Ramirez LG, Boscardin WJ, Lee SJ, Steinman MA Tags: Ann Intern Med Source Type: research