Branch L G, Jette A M
Am J Public Health. 1981 Nov;71(11):1202-10. doi: 10.2105/ajph.71.11.1202.
The Framingham Disability Study (FDS), a recent component of the Heart Disease Epidemiological Study in Framingham, Massachusetts, was designed to investigate the nature and magnitude of disability among mon-institutionalized aging adults. From September 1976, through November 1978, 2,654 individuals aged 55 to 84 years from the original cohort were interviewed in person or by telephone (94 per cent of the potential participant pool). This paper reports results on the prevalence social disability in five areas: housekeeping, transportation, social interaction, food preparation, and grocery shopping. Only 6 per cent of the sample have existing unmet needs in one or more of these five areas. The magnitude of social disability increases with advancing age. Women, in general, report a higher degree of unmet social needs than men. These findings are compared with other epidemiological investigations of social disability among the elderly.
弗雷明汉残疾研究（FDS）是马萨诸塞州弗雷明汉心脏病流行病学研究的一个近期项目，旨在调查非机构化老年人残疾的性质和程度。从1976年9月到1978年11月，对原队列中年龄在55至84岁的2654人进行了面对面或电话访谈（占潜在参与者群体的94%）。本文报告了五个领域社会残疾患病率的结果：家务、交通、社交互动、食物准备和杂货店购物。样本中只有6%的人在这五个领域中的一个或多个领域存在未满足的需求。社会残疾的程度随着年龄的增长而增加。总体而言，女性报告的未满足社会需求程度高于男性。将这些发现与其他关于老年人社会残疾的流行病学调查进行了比较。
