The Disablement Process: A Conceptual Framework for Dementia-Associated Disability

• Published in: Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders Vol. 13; no. 2; pp. 60 - 66
• Main Authors: Barberger-Gateau, P., Fabrigoule, C., Amieva, H., Helmer, C., Dartigues, J.F.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland Karger 01.01.2002; S. Karger AG
• Subjects: Activities of Daily Living; Biological and medical sciences; Degenerative and inherited degenerative diseases of the nervous system. Leukodystrophies. Prion diseases; Dementia; Dementia - psychology; Disabled Persons; Disease Progression; Humans; Medical sciences; Models, Psychological; Neurology; Review Article; Risk Factors; Patient care management; Activities of daily living; Risk factors; Precipitating factors; Dementia; Human; Disability; Nervous system diseases; Daily living; Central nervous system disease; Risk factor; Evolution; Models; Review; Elderly; Cerebral disorder
• ISSN: 1420-8008; 1421-9824
• DOI: 10.1159/000048635

Most of the social and economic burden of dementia is attributable to its consequences in terms of disability. In this review, we describe the concepts defined in the disablement process model of Verbrugge and Jette [Soc Sci Med 1994;38:1–14] and show how they apply to dementia. The main pathway lea...