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Prevalence and determinants of activity of daily living and instrumental activity of daily living among elderly in India [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Geriatrics, 2021
Abstract Background The increase in life expectancy has proliferated the number of elderly and subsequently increased the prevalence of disability among the elderly. This study assesses the prevalence of Activity of Daily Living (ADL) and Instrumental Activity of Daily Living (IADL) and analyzes determinants of ADL and ...
Shekhar Chauhan   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Functional Status of the Elderly and their Rehabilitation Needs: A Mixed-Method Study in a Slum of Kolkata, West Bengal

open access: yesSiriraj Medical Journal, 2023
Objective: A comprehensive understanding of the requirements of elderly is necessary to preserve their “functional capacity”, an important indicator of their health status.
Riya Halder   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effects of Daily Consumption of Soy Products on Basic/Instrumental Activities of Daily Living in Community-Dwelling Japanese Women Aged 75 Years and Older: A 4-Year Cohort Study

open access: yesWomen's Health Reports, 2023
Introduction: Since soy isoflavones compensate for age-related estrogen reduction, adequate intake of soy products may prevent the decline in activities of daily living (ADL) due to estrogen reduction in women.
Narumi Kojima   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prevalence of dynapenia and overlap with disability, depression, and executive dysfunction

open access: yesRevista de Saúde Pública, 2023
OBJECTIVE This study aims to investigate handgrip strength and dynapenia prevalence among older adults stratified by Brazilian macroregions. Additionally, we aim to evaluate the overlap between dynapenia and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL)
Ivan Abdalla Teixeira   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Disability prevalence in midlife (aged 55–65 years): Cross-Country comparisons of gender differences and time trends

open access: yesWomen's Midlife Health, 2021
Background Prior literature on disability has centered on disability prevalence among older adults ages 65 and older, providing only limited insight to potential gender differences in disability prevalence in mid-life.
Serena Wang   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Survey Mode Biases Reporting of Activities of Daily Living and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2015
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Lutomski, J.E.   +9 more
openaire   +9 more sources

Pronounced impairment of activities of daily living in posterior cortical atrophy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Introduction : The impact of several dementia syndromes on activities of daily living (ADLs) has been well documented, but no study has yet investigated functional ability in posterior cortical atrophy (PCA).
Ahmed, Samrah   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Synthesizing Event-centric Knowledge Graphs of Daily Activities Using Virtual Space [PDF]

open access: yesIEEE Access, Volume 11, pp.23857-23873, 2023, 2023
Artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to be embodied in software agents, robots, and cyber-physical systems that can understand the various contextual information of daily life in the home environment to support human behavior and decision making in various situations.
arxiv   +1 more source

Sharing of hand kinematic synergies across subjects in daily living activities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The motor system is hypothesised to use kinematic synergies to simplify hand control. Recent studies suggest that there is a large set of synergies, sparse in degrees of freedom, shared across subjects, so that each subject performs each action with a ...
Gracia-Ibáñez, Verónica   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Functional dependence among older adults: a cross-sectional study with a rural population of southern Brazil

open access: yesRural and Remote Health, 2020
Introduction: Brazil has a rapidly aging population, yet little is known about the occurrence of functional dependence in the rural older adult population.
Rodrigo Meucci   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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