@article{St. John_Montgomery_2013, place={Markham, Canada}, title={Acceptance of Disability and the Risk of Frailty}, volume={16}, url={https://cgjonline.ca/index.php/cgj/article/view/69}, DOI={10.5770/cgj.16.69}, abstractNote={<strong>Background</strong><br /><br />The objectives are to determine if: 1) accepting disability as a part of aging is associated with frailty; and 2) accepting disability is associated with becoming frail over a five-year period.<br /><br /><strong>Methods</strong><br /><br />Secondary analysis of a prospective cohort study of 1,751 community-dwelling adults aged 65+. Participants were asked to rate their agreement with the statement: “When you reach my age, you have to accept a fair degree of discomfort and physical disability” on a five-point scale. Frailty was categorized as not frail or frail. The sample was re-interviewed five years later.<br /><br /><strong>Results</strong><br /><br />The mean age was 75.5 years, 62.3% were women, and the mean education was 10.2 years. Accepting disability as a part of aging was strongly associated with frailty at time 1; the unadjusted Odds Ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) was 1.47 (1.25, 1.72) and this association persisted after adjusting for confounding factors. Accepting disability was also associated with becoming frail; the unadjusted OR and 95% CI was 1.51 (1.20, 1.90), and this association also persisted after adjusting for potential confounding factors.<br /><br /><strong>Conclusions</strong><br /><br />Accepting disability as a part of aging is associated with being frail and becoming frail.<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span>}, number={3}, journal={Canadian Geriatrics Journal}, author={St. John, Philip D. and Montgomery, Patrick}, year={2013}, month={Jun.}, pages={105–110} }