Research Article
Assessing Physical Performance in Centenarians: Norms and an Extended Scale from the Georgia Centenarian Study
Table 3
Distance from mortality (months) by physical performance categories.
| | % of column total | | Category | 0–6 | 7–12 | 13–24 | 25 |
| | SPPB | | 0–3 | 100.0 | 87.5 | 87.0 | 75.9 | | 4–6 | 0.0 | 7.5 | 10.9 | 17.2 | | 7–9 | 0.0 | 5.0 | 2.2 | 6.9 | | 10–12 (not observed) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| | PPME | | 0 | 57.1 | 27.5 | 45.7 | 28.4 | | 1-2 | 16.7 | 32.5 | 21.7 | 12.9 | | 3-4 | 16.7 | 20.0 | 15.2 | 27.6 | | 5-6 | 9.5 | 20.0 | 17.4 | 31.0 |
| | GCS | | 1–4 | 57.1 | 50.0 | 58.7 | 36.2 | | 5-6 | 26.2 | 25.0 | 13.0 | 12.1 | | 7–9 | 16.7 | 25.0 | 19.6 | 31.9 | | 10–12 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 8.7 | 19.8 |
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