APS

2023 APS Annual Convention · 2023

Optimism and Objective Measures of Physical Function

Washington, DC · May 2023

Poster · Cross Cutting Theme Poster: Improving Well-being by Leveraging Multimodal Data and Methods across

  • Hayami Koga
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Abstract

Among postmenopausal women, higher optimism was associated with better performance for grip strength and chair stand and with slower rates of decline over 6 years in timed walk and chair stand. Optimism may be leveraged to encourage interventions to slow aging-related declines in physical functioning.

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