Development of a risk assessment scale predicting incident functional disability among older people: Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study.

Taishi TsujiKatsunori KondoNaoki KondoJun AidaDaisuke Takagi
Published in: Geriatrics & gerontology international (2018)
We developed a risk assessment scale predicting incident functional disability composed of 10 essential items of the Needs Survey, sex and age. The scale had superior predictive validity, regardless of the level of urbanness. Geriatr Gerontol Int 2018; 18: 1433-1438.