My quality of life is great even though I will be disabled for half my life; age 50-100. I blame the stroke medical world primarily for my lack of recovery and specifically my doctor for not doing a damn thing when all his previous patients did not recover. Acceptance of failure to recover is endemic in the stroke medical world.
Quality of Life and Disability-free Survival in the Elderly: The Locomotive Syndrome and Health Outcome in Aizu Cohort Study
Abstract
Objectives:
The Short Form 12 Survey (SF-12) three-component model is used to compute health-related quality of life (QoL): it includes physical, mental, and role-social QoL. We asked whether the SF-12 three-component model is associated with disability-free survival.
Methods:
People ≥65 years old were included (n = 2634). SF-12 scores were assessed at baseline. The outcome was a composite of loss of independence (LoI) and death. LoI was defined using Japan’s long-term care insurance categories. Hazard ratios (HRs) for LoI or death were estimated using Cox proportional hazards models.
Results:
Better physical QoL was inversely associated with LoI or death (adjusted HR per 10-point increase: .88 [95% CI: .81–.96]), but mental QoL was not. Better role-social QoL was inversely associated with LoI or death only among participants with higher than average physical QoL (adjusted HR per 10-point increase: .79 [95% CI: .65–.96], p for interaction = .04).
Discussion:
Physical QoL was associated with disability-free survival, and role-social QoL was associated with disability-free survival among those with better physical QoL.
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