As will be shown, this permits distinguishing between fully robust persons and those not fully robust, but better off than prefrail, i.e. very early on in functional decline.
Such phenomena require not the "strong" or "robust" first-person perspective characteristic of persons, but only what Baker calls a "weak" or "rudimentary" first-person perspective roughly, the capacity to experience the world from an egocentric point of view (2000: 60 64).
It seems platitudinous that I can be responsible only for my own actions, but this suggests that what's at issue is the ownership relation of moral agents to their actions, i.e., the issue of what makes some past action properly attributable to me, a robust Lockean person.
The present study identified cognitive ability and female sex as correlates of risk aversion in a diverse cohort of community based older persons and showed that the association of cognitive ability with risk aversion was robust among persons with a wide spectrum of cognitive function.
Initial findings further revealed a robust third-person effect whereby despite nearly 90% of the sample endorsing that first-year weight gain was common, only 12% expected they would experience weight gain.
In addition, our results were robust among persons with long-term (> 10 years) residential stability.
We believe our finding of this association is substantiated because it is based on the study of a population with robust numbers of persons of non-white race/ethnicity.
Future directions and challenges include: The involvement in design of information systems of people with disabilities and service users is essential: information is then more robust, relevant and person-centred if service users are involved adequately in the design of information systems.
From the public health perspective, the main finding is that the FA index discriminated between functionally independent persons (Robust), and those with grades of functional derangement (postRobust or preFrail) and functional decline (Frail), and their trajectories over a six-year period.
