Aging and Performance of Home Tasks

Household behaviors must be understood in terms of a hierarchy of behavioral competence within which complexity determines the location of behaviors that can be evaluated in terms of basic health and social-normative criteria. Older people's household behaviors as well as higher-order behaviors...

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Published in:Human factors 1990-10, Vol.32 (5), p.527-536
Main Author: Lawton, M. Powell
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activities of daily living
Activities of Daily Living - psychology
Adult. Elderly
Aged
Aging - psychology
Autonomy
Behavior
Biological and medical sciences
Developmental psychology
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Health Services for the Aged
Home Care Services
Home environment
Humans
Impairment
Older people
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Safety
Social Environment
Space life sciences
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Summary:Household behaviors must be understood in terms of a hierarchy of behavioral competence within which complexity determines the location of behaviors that can be evaluated in terms of basic health and social-normative criteria. Older people's household behaviors as well as higher-order behaviors are schematized in terms of physical and instrumental activities of daily living (ADL). Data on impairment rates for ADLs and time budget studies are cited to emphasize the importance of the home environment. Other behaviors that represent needs for autonomy, support, and proactivity are discussed, as are research needs, both for development of measures of microbehaviors and for the study of behaviors designed to achieve alternative routes to an instrumental goal whose preferred means of attainment has been disturbed by physical impairment.
ISSN:0018-7208
1547-8181
DOI:10.1177/001872089003200503