Older Adults With Diabetes Have 28% Higher Risk For Functional Limitations

Older adults with diabetes were 28% more likely to develop one or more functional limitations than older adults without diabetes. Development of functional limitations as they aged for those with and without diabetes were more likely among those with low socioeconomic status, obesity, multimorbidity, and physical inactivity.

The finding was based on an analysis of data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging for adults ages 45 to 85 who had no functional limitations in the first wave follow-up, which took place from 2015 to 2018. About 18.9% of those with diabetes and 13.2% of those without . . .