Risk Factor for Incident Functional Disability and the Effect of a Preventive Exercise Program: A 4-Year Prospective Cohort Study of Older Survivors from the Great East Japan Earthquake and Nuclear Disaster.

Yujiro KurodaHajime IwasaMasatsugu OruiNobuaki MoriyamaClaudia Kimie SuemotoChikako YashiroKumiko MatsudaSeiji Yasumura

Published in: International journal of environmental research and public health (2018)

Pre-disaster BCL domains were useful to identify individuals at risk of functional disability after a major socio-technical disaster. Therefore, this instrument can be used to identify at-risk older adults who would benefit from early exercise programs to prevent incident functional disability.

Keyphrases

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