Aging and disability: biopsychosocial perspectives.

TitleAging and disability: biopsychosocial perspectives.
Publication TypeJournal Article
2010
AuthorsMolton IR, Jensen MP
JournalPhysical medicine and rehabilitation clinics of North America
Volume21
Issue2
Pagination253-65
Date Published2010 May
ISSN1558-1381
Activities of Daily Living, Adaptation, Psychological, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Aging, Disability Evaluation, Female, Geriatric Assessment, Humans, Incidence, Interpersonal Relations, Male, Mobility Limitation, Musculoskeletal Diseases, Psychology, Quality of Life, Risk Assessment

Understanding the complex trajectories of disability and aging requires a biopsychosocial approach that considers disability in the broader context of later adulthood. Although disability service researchers and gerontologists have many shared interests and a similar mission, the fields are relatively new to one another and have had little historical interaction. The purpose of this article is to increase and improve collaboration among investigators in these fields by providing some background in social gerontology to the disability researcher, and by applying key theories in aging to the issue of growing older with physical disability. The article discusses particular problem areas for older adults, including social support, and also discusses the parallel paradoxes of aging and disability.

10.1016/j.pmr.2009.12.012
PubMed ID20494275