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Abstract
As the number and proportion of older adults living in the U.S. increases, growing evidence shows that people are entering late life with more functional disability than in previous generations. Using data from the 2020 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey, we sought to identify the contributions of demographic variables and health conditions to functional disability. Specifically, we tested the associations among age, sex, race, chronic physical health conditions, depression, and functional ability among 243,693 adults, ages 45 years and older. Model testing, implemented in AMOS 29.0.0, resulted in an acceptable fit of the model to the data, Χ2 (DF = 18, N = 243,693) = 19,512.64, p < .001; CFI = 0.909; TLI = 0.774; RMSEA = 0.066; R2 Function = .267. The findings from the present study replicate previous research that age, sex, and racial background differences influence functional disability. We extend the literature to examine physical and emotional health as potential pathways to intervene in midlife.
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Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine (GGM) is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed open access journal where scholars from a variety of disciplines present their work focusing on the psychological, behavioral, social, and biological aspects of aging, and public health services and research related to aging. The journal addresses a wide variety of topics related to health services research in gerontology and geriatrics. GGM seeks to be one of the world’s premier Open Access outlets for gerontological academic research. As such, GGM does not limit content due to page budgets or thematic significance. Papers will be subjected to rigorous peer review but will be selected solely on the basis of whether the research is sound and deserves publication. By virtue of not restricting papers to a narrow discipline, GGM facilitates the discovery of the connections between papers.