Dwight B Brock
Biographic Data
| ID | 6060605 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dwight B Brock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dwight B |
| FAMILY NAME | Brock |
| SIGNATURE | BROCK D B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Daniel J. Foley, Jack M. Guralnik, and Dwight B. Brock are with the Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Md. Harley K. Heimovitz is with Sytel Inc, Rockville, Md. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Driving Life Expectancy of Persons Aged 70 Years and Older in the United States
Objectives. We estimated total life expectancy and driving life expectancy of US drivers aged 70 years and older. Methods. Life table methods were applied to 4699 elderly persons who were driving in 1993 and reassessed in a 1995 survey. Results. Drivers aged 70 to 74 years had a driving life expectancy of approximately 11 years. A higher risk of mortality among men as a cause of driving cessation offset a higher risk of driving cessation not rela…
Hospital and Nursing Home Use in the Last Three Months of Life
We describe decedents' days of care and changes in residence due to episodes of hospital and institutional care in the last 90 days of life. Data are from the National Institute on Aging's Survey of the Last Days of Life (SLDOL) with informants' responses for a sample of 1,227 decedents age 65 years and older from Fairfield County, Connecticut. Overall, three-fourths of the decedents made only one transition to or from a health care facility in t…
Driving Life Expectancy of Persons Aged 70 Years and Older in the United States
Objectives. We estimated total life expectancy and driving life expectancy of US drivers aged 70 years and older. Methods. Life table methods were applied to 4699 elderly persons who were driving in 1993 and reassessed in a 1995 survey. Results. Drivers aged 70 to 74 years had a driving life expectancy of approximately 11 years. A higher risk of mortality among men as a cause of driving cessation offset a higher risk of driving cessation not rela…
Hospital and Nursing Home Use in the Last Three Months of Life
We describe decedents' days of care and changes in residence due to episodes of hospital and institutional care in the last 90 days of life. Data are from the National Institute on Aging's Survey of the Last Days of Life (SLDOL) with informants' responses for a sample of 1,227 decedents age 65 years and older from Fairfield County, Connecticut. Overall, three-fourths of the decedents made only one transition to or from a health care facility in t…
Driving Life Expectancy of Persons Aged 70 Years and Older in the United States
Objectives. We estimated total life expectancy and driving life expectancy of US drivers aged 70 years and older. Methods. Life table methods were applied to 4699 elderly persons who were driving in 1993 and reassessed in a 1995 survey. Results. Drivers aged 70 to 74 years had a driving life expectancy of approximately 11 years. A higher risk of mortality among men as a cause of driving cessation offset a higher risk of driving cessation not rela…
Demography (2 works) · Gerontology (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Dementia (1 works) · Demography (1 works) · Disease (1 works) · Environmental health (1 works) · Expectancy theory (1 works) · Frailty in Older Adults (1 works) · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (1 works)