[Health survey in the elderly using home interviews: study of various indicators]. / Enquête de santé chez les personnes âgées par interview à domicile: etude de quelques indicateurs.

ABSTRACT

Questions asked on the occasion of health survey at home usually refer to frequency of medical consultations and prescribed drugs, but often also to reported somatic symptoms and self-evaluated general health status. Interview data collected in a population of aged widows and widowers revealed a high degree of concordance between these various health indicators, justifying in particular the value assigned to the subjective appreciation of the level of general health.