Fig. 1

Exploratory sequence analysis for the 2271 selected older adults. X-axis is years since entry into the study. State distribution plots represent the cumulative frequency of participants in each state at a given time. Index plots represent the 2271 individual trajectories. Sequence frequency plots represent the ten most frequent trajectories and how often they occur. ‘Incap’ stands for incapacitated, ‘temp’ for temporary, ‘reg ‘ for regularly and ‘perm’ for permanent