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The impact of health status on the everyday problem solving of older adults

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(Thesis) M.A.
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2010-07-08
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There has been increasing interest in measures of everyday problem solving (EPS), which require traditional cognitive abilities as well as the appropriate application of these abilities to solving problems relevant to everyday situations. We examined the contribution of general illness burden and two subsets (non-vascular, and vascular illness burden) as well as two aspects of self-rated health (SRH; mental and physical) to individual differences in EPS performance in a sample of 102 community-dwelling older adults. Illness burden was conceptualized as the total number of each type of illness, and SRH was assessed using the Short Form 36 (SF-36). The vascular subset of general illness burden was associated with poorer EPS performance; however, this relationship was largely accounted for by demographic variables. Lower self-rated physical functioning (SRPF) predicted poorer EPS performance and may be an important predictor of EPS performance in the expanding older adult population in North America.
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Thesis advisor: Thornton, Wendy
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