Predicting Your Future Health (Research, Video)

Can people accurately predict their own health? Can self-rated predictions of mortality or decline in instrumental daily living activities be mostly true? This study of self-rated health predictions and decline in instrumental activities of daily living included community-dwelling older adults 65 years or older (2,638 males and 3,346 females). 

Results reported that poorer self-rated health was significantly associated with decline in both men and women and confirmed that self-rated health is an independent predictor of decline in instrumental activities of daily living among non-disabled community-dwelling older adults.

Frances Shani Parker, Author

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