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Time Trends In And The Determinants Of Disability Among Elderly Taiwanese, 1994-2004, Chun-Min Chen, David Atherton Griffiths, Irene Kreis, Herng-Chia Chiu, Judy Mullan, Tzuo-Yun Lan

Professor David Griffiths

This longitudinal study was conducted between 1994 and 2004 in a cohort of southern Taiwan community-living elderly residents. This study aims to investigate the longitudinal change in disability, by using a ten-year longitudinal data set with six set cross-sectional data to exam-ine the trends of disability and the determinants. Disability was assessed using the Physical Activities of Daily Living (7PADLs) and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (7IADLs) scales. Socio-demographic factors; socioeconomic factors; living arrangements; lifestyle behaviours and health status were chosen as the predictors of each specific disability. eneralized estimating equation (GEE) regression models were used to analyse longitudinal data …