TY - JOUR
T1 - The validity of nutritional status as a marker for future disability and depressive symptoms among high-risk older adults
AU - Boult, Chad
AU - Krinke, U. Beate
AU - Urdangarin, Cristina Flood
AU - Skarin, Vicki
PY - 1999/8
Y1 - 1999/8
N2 - OBJECTIVE: To measure the validity of the DETERMINE Checklist as a marker for future functional disability, depressive symptoms, and mortality among high-risk older adults. DESIGN: A Cohort study. SETTING: An Urban- suburban Midwestern community. PARTICIPANTS: Community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries at high risk for hospital admission who received geriatric evaluation and management (GEM) (n = 251). MEASUREMENTS: Demographic, health- related, functional, psychosocial, survival, and nutritional data were collected through telephone and in-home interviews. RESULTS: GEM recipients with baseline Checklist scores of four or higher were found to be significantly more likely than those with lower scores to have functional disability or high levels of depressive symptoms a year later. Checklist scores did not predict mortality. CONCLUSIONS: The 10-item Checklist could be used as a secondary screen to identify older persons who, without treatment, are at especially high-risk to have disability or depression a year later.
AB - OBJECTIVE: To measure the validity of the DETERMINE Checklist as a marker for future functional disability, depressive symptoms, and mortality among high-risk older adults. DESIGN: A Cohort study. SETTING: An Urban- suburban Midwestern community. PARTICIPANTS: Community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries at high risk for hospital admission who received geriatric evaluation and management (GEM) (n = 251). MEASUREMENTS: Demographic, health- related, functional, psychosocial, survival, and nutritional data were collected through telephone and in-home interviews. RESULTS: GEM recipients with baseline Checklist scores of four or higher were found to be significantly more likely than those with lower scores to have functional disability or high levels of depressive symptoms a year later. Checklist scores did not predict mortality. CONCLUSIONS: The 10-item Checklist could be used as a secondary screen to identify older persons who, without treatment, are at especially high-risk to have disability or depression a year later.
KW - Depression
KW - Functional disability
KW - Nutritional status
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1999.tb01296.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1999.tb01296.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 10443862
AN - SCOPUS:0032777889
SN - 0002-8614
VL - 47
SP - 995
EP - 999
JO - Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
JF - Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
IS - 8
ER -