The impact of chronic multimorbidity and disability on functional decline and survival in elderly persons. A community‐based, longitudinal study

• Published in: Journal of internal medicine Vol. 265; no. 2; pp. 288 - 295
• Main Authors: Marengoni, A., Von Strauss, E., Rizzuto, D., Winblad, B., Fratiglioni, L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.02.2009; Blackwell
• Subjects: Activities of Daily Living; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Biological and medical sciences; Chronic Disease; chronic multimorbidity; disability; Disability Evaluation; Disabled Persons - statistics & numerical data; elderly; Epidemiology; Female; General aspects; Geriatric Assessment; Humans; Longitudinal Studies; Male; Medical sciences; Mortality; Prospective Studies; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Survival Analysis; Sweden - epidemiology; Sweden; Human; Mortality; Epidemiology; Survival; Disability; Medicine; Concomitant disease; Chronic; Follow up study; Polypathology; chronic multimorbidity; Elderly; Community

. Objective.  We aimed to disentangle the effect of chronic multimorbidity and disability on 3‐year functional decline and survival in the elderly. Design.  Prospective cohort study with a mean of follow‐up of 2.8 years. Setting.  Swedish elderly persons from the Kungsholmen Project (1987–2000). Sub...