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CAPABLE IS ASSOCIATED WITH DECREASED DISABILITY IN LOW INCOME OLDER ADULTS IN BALTIMORE
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CAPABLE IS ASSOCIATED WITH DECREASED DISABILITY IN LOW INCOME OLDER ADULTS IN BALTIMORE

S.L. Szanton, J.L. Wolff, L. Roberts, B.A. Leff, R.J. Thorpe, J.M. Guralnik and L.N. Gitlin
Innovation in aging, v 1(Suppl 1), pp 1392-1392
30 Jun 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igx004.5123
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We present final results from the 281 CAPABLE participants in a CMMI project. Participants were low-income, cognitively intact, older adults with functional difficulty. They were 74.9 (SD-7.4) years old and predominantly African American (80%) women (83%). They had an average of 3.3 (SD 1.33) chronic conditions and reported difficulty in 3.9 (SD 2.04) out of 8 activities of daily living at baseline. Five months later, at the conclusion of the program, participants had difficulty with only 2.0 (SD 2.05) of 8 ADLs. 75% of the study participants reported difficulty with fewer ADLs at follow-up. In multivariate models, age, race, and depressive symptoms at baseline were not related to improvements. Depressive symptoms improved in 53% of the cohort. Home hazards decreased from an average of 3.3 hazards (SD=1.83) to 1.4 hazards (SD=1.14). Participants who had been hospitalized in the prior year benefited as much as their non-hospitalized counterparts (p=0.14).

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