Research Article
Assessing Physical Performance in Centenarians: Norms and an Extended Scale from the Georgia Centenarian Study
Table 1
Sample characteristics by age group.
| | Octogenarians | Centenarians | | Characteristic | | /% | SD | Min | Max | | /% | SD | Min | Max | -value |
| Age (years)a | 80 | 84.32 | 2.78 | 80.53 | 90.06 | 244 | 100.58 | 2.04 | 98.10 | 108.55 | .001 | Femaleb | 80 | 66.3 | | | | 244 | 84.8 | | | | .001 | Blackb | 244 | 17.5 | | | | 80 | 21.3 | | | | .525 | Institutionalizedb | 244 | 16.3 | | | | 80 | 62.7 | | | | .001 | SPPBc | 80 | 5.63 | 3.22 | 0 | 12 | 244 | 1.46 | 2.19 | 0 | 9 | .001 | PPMEc | 80 | 4.48 | 2.01 | 0 | 6 | 244 | 2.31 | 2.11 | 0 | 6 | .001 | GCSc | 80 | 9.08 | 3.15 | 2 | 12 | 244 | 5.18 | 3.08 | 1 | 12 | .001 | DAFS BADLa | 77 | 21.23 | 5.25 | 0 | 23 | 231 | 16.29 | 8.26 | 0 | 23 | .001 | DAFS IADLc | 78 | 47.67 | 17.12 | 0 | 58 | 235 | 25.74 | 18.28 | 0 | 58 | .001 | Leg strength (kg)a | 80 | 11.06 | 7.87 | 0 | 40.05 | 241 | 5.05 | 5.83 | 0 | 35 | .001 | Grip strength (kg)a | 80 | 21.49 | 12.22 | 0 | 63.50 | 243 | 10.32 | 10.54 | 0 | 60 | .001 |
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a-test with unequal variances.
bFisher's exact test.
c-test with equal variances.
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