Improving the measurement of late-life disability in population surveys
Subtitle: beyond ADLs and IADLs : summary of a workshop
By: Gooloo S. Wunderlich, rapporteur ; Committee on National Statistics, Committee on Population, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council of the National Academies
Contributors: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on National Statistics
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9780309143714
Subjects: Disability Evaluation; Activities of Daily Living; Disability evaluation; Methodology; Congresses; Health surveys; Aged; Evaluation
Notes: Errata slip inserted.

Includes bibliographical references.

Also issued online.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Challenges to improving measurement of late-life functioning and disability; title: Potential methods for revising measures to foster comparability across subgroups; title: Improving the validity of cross-population comparisons; title: Measuring functioning and disability in context; title: Research and development toward improved measures of late-life disability.