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Activities of Daily Living

open access: yesCreative Nursing
This journal issue reports on the effects on our spirits of the increasing stress, complexity, and change that seemingly are coming faster than we as a species can adapt to them. The sources of our articles (Australia, Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Palestine, Portugal, South Korea, Turkey, and the US) show that these effects are ...
Edemekong PF   +3 more
europepmc   +9 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

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

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

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

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

Evaluation of Daily Living Activities of the Individuals with Osteoarthritis

open access: yesTürk Osteoporoz Dergisi, 2014
Objective: Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most commonly seen joint diseases and chronic diseases. This research was conducted in order to evaluate daily living activities of the individuals who were diagnosed as OA.
Kenan Gümüş, Ayla Ünsal
doaj   +1 more source

Identifying longitudinal sustainable hierarchies in activities of daily living [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
© 2017 Elsevier B.V. Activities of daily living serve as an indicator of progression in disability and rehabilitation. It is know that some of the measurement scales used show hierarchical properties indicating that activities of daily living are lost ...
Ferrario, Barbara   +5 more
core   +1 more source

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