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The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences 2009 64A(11):1175-1176; doi:10.1093/gerona/glp096
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Beyond Dueling Models

Commentary Responding to: Guralnik JM, Ferrucci L. The Challenge of Understanding the Disablement Process in Older Persons and Freedman V. Adopting the ICF Language for Studying Late-life Disability: A Field of Dreams?

Alan M. Jette

Health and Disability Research Institute, Boston University School of Public Health, Massachusetts

Address correspondence to Alan M. Jette, PhD, PT, Health and Disability Research Institute, Boston University School of Public Health, 715 Albany Street-T5W, Boston, MA 02118. Email: ajette@bu.edu

Received: June 23, 2009; Accepted: June 23, 2009
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I’D like to begin by thanking Drs Guralnik, Ferrucci, and Freedman for their thoughtful reflections in response to my guest editorial, Toward a Common Language of Disablement (1). These efforts will initiate an important dialogue within gerontology that I believe will be very useful in furthering the study of late-life disability.

The commentators and I agree that there is merit in having an internationally agreed-upon language and framework for the study of late-life disability. Where opinions diverge is over whether or not the ICF . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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