New Research shows association between behavioural risk factors, functional disability and social participation

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New aging research published today in BMJ Open and led by Dr. Parminder Raina, shows that for middle-age and older adults, functional disability and behavioural risk factors (e.g., smoking, low physical activity, low nutritional intake and high-risk alcohol consumption) are associated with restrictions on social participation. Using data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging, this is the first study to look at these factors with a nationally generalizable sample for community-dwelling adults.

Read the full article: Associations of functional disability and behavioural risk factors with social participation of older adults: a cross-sectional analysis from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging