Functional capability of 68-year-old people in the town of Jyväskylä.
A cross-sectional study on the functional capability of 68-year-old persons was performed in 1973 in the town of Jyväskylä in Central Finland. The mean values of the measured variables for men and women, respectively, were the following: vital capacity 1.7 l/m2 and 1.2 l/m2; threshold of auditory perception (4000 cps) 49.0 dB and 28.4 dB, digit symbol 23.9 and 24.3 digits; digit span 9.5 and 9.7 numbers; simple reaction time 0.27 sec; pred. max VO2 26.6 and 21.6 ml/kg - min. Persons with high physical working capacity or good self-assessed health attained better results compared to persons with low PWC or poor self-assessed health.
D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D001294:Attitude to Health; D001307:Auditory Perception; D001824:Body Constitution; D005260:Female; D005387:Finland; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011930:Reaction Time; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014732:Vibration; D014797:Vital Capacity; D014888:Wechsler Scales