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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, Agnieszka Wiśniowska-Szurlej, Anna Wilmowska-Pietruszyńska, Bernard Sozański   +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, Shanshan Yang, Shengshu Wang, Penggang Tai, Wangping Jia, Ke Han, Miao Liu, Yao He   +7 more
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Association of Frailty with recovery from disability among community-dwelling Chinese older adults: China health and retirement longitudinal study

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, Ya-Xi Li, Yixin Hu, Chenkai Wu   +3 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, Sabrina Danti, Lucia Picchi, Angelo Nuti, Mario Di Fiorino   +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, Takayuki Tabira, Masatomo Kubota, Yuriko Ikeda, Kazuhiro Inoue, Yasuaki Akasaki   +5 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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A funcionalidade dos mais idosos (>75 anos): conceitos, perfis e oportunidades de um grupo heterogêneo

Revista Brasileira de Geriatria e Gerontologia
OBJETIVOS: 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, Maria Amália Botelho, Ana Alexandre Fernandes   +2 more
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Potential associated factors of functional disability in Chinese older inpatients: a multicenter cross-sectional study

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, Jing Jiao, Chen Zhu, Minglei Zhu, Xianxiu Wen, Jingfen Jin, Hui Wang, Dongmei Lv, Shengxiu Zhao, Xinjuan Wu, Tao Xu   +10 more
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Improving the Delivery of Function-Directed Care During Acute Hospitalizations: Methods to Develop and Validate the Functional Assessment in Acute Care Multidimensional Computerized Adaptive Test (FAMCAT)

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, Chun Wang, PhD, Kathleen J. Yost, PhD, Jeanne A. Teresi, EdD, PhD, Mildred Ramirez, PhD, Katja Ocepek-Welikson, M Phil, Pengsheng Ni, MD, MPH, Elizabeth Marfeo, PhD, MPH, OTR/L, Tamra Keeney, DPT, PhD, Jeffrey R. Basford, MD, PhD, David J. Weiss, PhD   +10 more
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Time Toxicity in Wilms Tumor: Quantifying the Burden of Healthcare Interaction in the First Year After Diagnosis

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Wilms tumor (WT) treatment imposes a significant time burden on patients and their families. Time toxicity is a patient‐centered metric that quantifies the burden of healthcare interaction. We sought to define time toxicity in the first year after diagnosis of WT and hypothesized that it would increase as tumor stage and treatment ...
Caleb Q. Ashbrook, Veerain Gupta, Nicholas J. Clark, Vijay Rings, Lauren E. Corona, Douglass B. Clayton, Daniel J. Benedetti   +6 more
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