Functional Limitations to Daily Living Tasks in the Aged: A Focus Group Analysis

摘要

We assessed constraints on daily living of 59 healthy, active adults 65-88 years of age in focus group interviews. Individual comments about specific problems were coded along the dimensions of (a) the locus of the problem (motor, visual, auditory, cognitive, external, or health limitations); (b) the activity involved (e.g., transportation, leisure, housekeeping); (c) whether the problem was attrib- utable to task difficulty or the perception of risk; and (d) response to limitations (perseverance, cessation, compensation. or self-improvement).