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International Journal of Public Health, 2022 Objective: This paper assesses the relationship between demographics, health parameters, and functional limitations among older adults in Korea, including limitations in activities of daily living (ADLs) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs)
Van Cuong Nguyen +3 more
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Determinants of ADL and IADL disability in older adults in southeastern Poland
BMC Geriatrics, 2019 Background The extension of the life span has led to an increase in the number of older people and an increase in the prevalence of disability in people over 60 years of age.
Agnieszka Ćwirlej-Sozańska +3 more
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BMC Geriatrics, 2020 Backgrounds Little is known about the role of frailty in the recovery process of disability among older adults. We examined the association between frailty and recovery from activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental ADL (IADL) disability among ...
Weihao Xu +3 more
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Central and Peripheral Adiposity Had Different Effect on Disability in Centenarians
Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2021 PurposeTo explore the correlations between waist circumference, body mass index, calf circumference (CC), and waist-calf circumference ratio (WCR) and activities of daily living (ADLs) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) in Hainan ...
Shanshan Yang +7 more
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Daily functioning and dementia
Dementia & Neuropsychologia, 2020 . Dementia is characterized by a decline in memory, language, problem-solving and in other cognitive domains that affect a person’s ability to perform everyday activities and social functioning.
Gabriele Cipriani +4 more
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Factors affecting the self-rated health of elderly individuals living alone: a cross-sectional study
BMC Research Notes, 2017 Objective In Japan, the number of elderly individuals living alone is continuing to increase as society ages. Although studies have considered quality of life, life expectancy, and gender differences in elderly individuals living alone, only a few have ...
Koji Yoshimitsu +5 more
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Revista Brasileira de Geriatria e GerontologiaOBJETIVOS: Conhecer a funcionalidade de dois grupos de idosos (75-84 anos e >85 anos) e sua associação com idade e gênero. MÉTODOS: Trata-se de estudo observacional do tipo analítico e transversal, cuja amostra foi constituída por indivíduos de ambos os ...
Ana Paula Fontes +2 more
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BMC Geriatrics, 2020 Background There is still controversy about the relationship between aging and changes in functional ability. This study aims to describe the level of basic activities of daily living (ADL) and higher-level instrumental activities of daily living (IADL ...
Hongpeng Liu +10 more
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Geriatric Psychiatry: Just So You Know
MedEdPORTAL, 2014 Introduction By 2030 about 20% of the U.S. population will be over age 65. The Institute of Medicine report published in 2012 titled “The Mental Health and Substance Abuse Workforce, In Whose Hands?” decries the shortage of specialists in geriatrics and ...
Mary Blazek
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Archives of Rehabilitation Research and Clinical Translation, 2021 Objective:: To (1) develop a patient-reported, multidomain functional assessment tool focused on medically ill patients in acute care settings; (2) characterize the measure's psychometric performance; and (3) establish clinically actionable score strata ...
Andrea L. Cheville, MD, MSCE +10 more
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