Self‐Reported Causes of Physical Disability in Older People: The Cardiovascular Health Study

OBJECTIVE: To determine the major conditions and symptoms reported to cause difficulty in 17 physical tasks of daily life and the criterion validity of self‐report of diseases given as the causes of the difficulty in functioning, in community‐dwelling older people.

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