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The Physical Activity Scale for the Elderly (PASE): development and evaluation.

R. Washburn, K. Smith, A. Jette, C. Janney
Medicine
Journal of clinical epidemiology
1 February 1993

L. Verbrugge, A. Jette
Medicine, Philosophy
Social science & medicine
1994

Fear of falling and activity restriction: the survey of activities and fear of falling in the elderly (SAFE).

M. Lachman, J. Howland, S. Tennstedt, A. Jette, S. Assmann, E. Peterson
Psychology
The journals of gerontology. Series B…
1998

A new instrument that assesses fear of falling during performance of 11 activities, and gathers information about participation in these activities as well as the extent to which fear is a source of activity restriction, demonstrated good internal consistency reliability and showed convergent validity with otherFear of falling measures.

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Toward a common language for function, disability, and health.

A. Jette
Medicine
Physical therapy
1 May 2006

This perspective provides an update on the changing language of disablement, reviews selected contemporary disablement models, and discusses some challenges that need to be addressed to achieve a universal disablement language that can be used to discuss physical therapy research and clinical interventions.

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A randomized, controlled trial of a group intervention to reduce fear of falling and associated activity restriction in older adults.

S. Tennstedt, J. Howland, M. Lachman, E. Peterson, L. Kasten, A. Jette
Psychology
The journals of gerontology. Series B…
1 November 1998

The intervention had immediate but modest beneficial effects that diminished over time in the setting with no booster intervention, and effects at 12 months included improved social function and mobility range.

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Late Life Function and Disability Instrument: II. Development and evaluation of the function component.

S. Haley, A. Jette, J. Ashba
Medicine, Psychology
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological…
1 April 2002

The Late-Life Function and Disability Instrument has potential to assess activity concepts related to upper and lower extremity functioning across a wide variety of daily physical tasks and individual levels of physical functioning.

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Late life function and disability instrument: I. Development and evaluation of the disability component.

A. Jette, S. Haley, J. Ashba
Medicine, Psychology
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological…
1 April 2002

The Late-Life Function and Disability Instrument has potential to assess meaningful concepts of disability across a wide variety of life tasks with relatively few items and expected differences in summary scores of known-functional limitation groups support the validity of this instrument.

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Adverse events associated with testosterone administration.

S. Basaria, A. Coviello, S. Bhasin
Medicine
The New England journal of medicine
8 July 2010

In this population of older men with limitations in mobility and a high prevalence of chronic disease, the application of a testosterone gel was associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular adverse events.

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Covariates of fear of falling and associated activity curtailment.

J. Howland, M. Lachman, E. Peterson, J. Cote, L. Kasten, A. Jette
Psychology
The Gerontologist
1 October 1998

Falls history appears an important contributor to fear of falling, whereas the impact of this fear on activities appears more a function of social support.

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Nutrition and health risks in the elderly: the nutrition screening initiative.

B. Posner, A. Jette, K. Smith, D. Miller
Medicine
American journal of public health
1 July 1993

The Nutrition Screening Initiative Checklist is a brief, easily scored instrument that can accurately identify noninstitutionalized older persons at risk for low nutrient intake and health problems.

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