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Functional Limitations to Daily Living Tasks in the Aged: A Focus Group Analysis
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We assessed constraints on daily living of 59 healthy, active adults 65-88 years of age in focus group interviews. Individual comments about specific problems were coded along the dimensions of (a) the locus of the problem (motor, visual, auditory, cognitive, external, or health limitations); (b) the activity involved (e.g., transportation, leisure, housekeeping); (c) whether the problem was attributable to task difficulty or the perception of risk; and (d) response to limitations (perseverance, cessation, compensation, or self-improvement). The data provide information about the types of difficulties encountered in everyday activities as well as the way in which individuals respond to such difficulties. Each comment was also coded in terms of whether it was remediable via training, design changes, or some combination of the two. More than half of the problems that were reported had the potential to be improved in some way, thus providing direction for future research in human factors and aging. Actual or potential applications of this research include identifying problems and difficulties that older adults encounter in daily activities such as transportation and leisure; more specifically, determining the degree to which such problems are potentially remediable by human factors solutions. Applications of this research also include understanding the types of systems, products, and technologies that older adults interact with currently, or are interested in learning to use.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Rogers, W. A., Meyer, B., Walker, N., & Fisk, A. D.
- Affiliations
- University of Georgia (US)
- Georgia Institute of Technology (US)
- ORCID
- Rogers, Wendy A.
- Venue
- Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1998-03
- Volume
- 40
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 111-125
- ISSN
- 0018-7208 (ISSN-L)
- 1547-8181
- OpenAlex
- W2010881674
- Cited by
- 223
- References
- 32
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- FWCI
- 27.57
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute on Aging (P50AG11715, P50AG011715)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Geriatrics and Gerontology › Technology Use by Older Adults
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Aging, Health, and Disability
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Aging and Gerontology Research
- Keywords
- older adults, activities of daily living, functional limitations, aging, transportation, leisure, housekeeping, task difficulty, risk perception, compensatory strategies, design changes, assistive technology
- MeSH terms
- Activities of Daily Living, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Female, Humans, Ergonomics, Male, Geriatric Assessment, Observer Variation, Focus Groups
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