In conclusion, our results suggest that self-reports may be affected by a variety of societal influences including the gender specificity of certain activities of daily living and differences in the perception of response categories by men and women. As a result, these people could be referred to interventions aimed at reducing poor physical function such as health education, domiciliary visits by trained health workers for attention and care to elderly persons; and provision of training to the family care providers in looking after the disabled elderly persons and physical activity programmes for community-living older
