United States: Lower Body Functioning Prevalence And Correlates In Older American Indians In A Southeastern Tribe - The Native Elder Care Study

United States: Lower Body Functioning Prevalence And Correlates In Older American Indians In A Southeastern Tribe - The Native Elder Care Study   R. Turner Goins, Kim Innes, and Lili Dong, 2012   The objective of this study was to use performance-based measurements to identify, in a population of community-dwelling American Indians aged 55 and older, the prevalence and correlates of lower body functioning. Data were collected as part of a cross-sectional study of disability from...

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