Surveillance evaluation for the elderly.
Using a medical, social, and functional assessment form, we found several measures which were reliably associated with a criterion of impending mortality; activities of daily living were most highly correlated, medical assessment and services needed were correlated less strongly, but visual impairment and the cumulative total of all measures were the best predictors (r = .42).
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D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003152:Community Health Nursing; D004739:England; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D015577:Geriatric Assessment; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D009026:Mortality