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Environmental barriers are commonly seen as negative features of the environment that cause problems for persons with functional limitations [ 19].
Persons with functional limitations often require special care and assistance by both family and qualified personnel, which increases the burden to home budgets, health and social care systems.
More specifically, we constructed a typology of problematic person-environment fit constellations, addressing accessibility problems in the built environment for persons with functional limitations.
However, not all older persons with functional limitations necessarily restrict their life-space, if they can find ways to compensate for their difficulties, e.g. by using mobility devices [ 21].
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The reason for weighting the sample towards older persons was to increase the proportion of individuals with functional limitations.
Direct-care workers provide daily personal care and other supportive services to individuals with functional limitations.
Since individuals with functional limitations have a higher risk of being limited in activities, we expect some individuals with functional limitations to report activity limitations.
Health impacts of caregiving for older adults with functional limitations: results from the Singapore survey on informal caregiving.
The association was less pronounced with functional limitations by severity (no functional limitation: 14%; at least one severe functional limitation: 76%).
Aging is often associated with functional limitations and disability.
However, not all individuals with functional limitations have long-term limitations in their activities, so the association between the GALI and functional limitations could be weaker than with daily activity limitations.
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