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Domiciliary occupational therapy for patients with stroke discharged from hospital: randomised controlled trial [PDF]

, 2000
OBJECTIVE: To establish if a brief programme of domiciliary occupational therapy could improve the recovery of patients with stroke discharged from hospital. DESIGN: Single blind randomised controlled trial.
Allen, A., Gilbertson, L., Langhorne, P., Murray, G.D., Walker, A.   +4 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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Household heating associated with disability in activities of daily living among Chinese middle-aged and elderly: a longitudinal study

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine, 2020
Background The health hazards of indoor air pollution are well-established but studies of the health effects due to pollution from heating are rare. This study investigated the association of heating and disability for activities of daily living among ...
Qing Wang, Jose A. Tapia Granados
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Free-View, 3D Gaze-Guided, Assistive Robotic System for Activities of Daily Living [PDF]

, 2018
Patients suffering from quadriplegia have limited body motion which prevents them from performing daily activities. We have developed an assistive robotic system with an intuitive free-view gaze interface.
Darzi, Ara, Kogkas, Alexandros A., Mylonas, George P., Wang, Ming-Yao   +3 more
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Behçet’s disease and activities of daily living

Rheumatology, 2021
Abstract Objectives No large-scale registration study has comprehensively evaluated the activities of daily living (ADL) in patients with Behçet’s disease. Methods The Japanese government provided us with a dataset of confirmed or ...
Aoi Nagano, Masaki Takeuchi, Nobuyuki Horita, Takeshi Teshigawara, Tatsukata Kawagoe, Yuki Mizuki, Akira Meguro, Hiroto Nakano, Yohei Kirino, Kaoru Takase-Minegishi, Ryusuke Yoshimi, Michiko Kurosawa, Takeshi Fukumoto, Mitsuhiro Takeno, Takeshi Kaneko, Nobuhisa Mizuki   +15 more
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Prevalence and spectrum of functional disability of urban elderly subjects: A community-based study from Central India

Journal of Family and Community Medicine, 2017
INTRODUCTION: One of the major determinants of the quality of life of elderly subjects is their functional status, which refers to their ability to perform normal daily activities.
Priya Keshari, Hari Shankar
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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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Effects of a physiotherapy and occupational therapy intervention on mobility and activity in care home residents: a cluster randomised controlled trial [PDF]

, 2009
Objective To compare the clinical effectiveness of a programme of physiotherapy and occupational therapy with standard care in care home residents who have mobility limitations and are dependent in performing activities of daily ...
Hollands, Kristen, Hoppitt, Thomas J., Lett, Karen, Patel, Smitaa, Sackley, Catherine M., van den Berg, Maayken E., Wright, Christine C.   +6 more
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Long term improvements in activities of daily living in patients with hemispatial neglect [PDF]

, 2010
No abstract ...
Birschel, Philip, Castle, Pauline, Duncan, George, Harvey, Monika, Hogg, Caroline, Jackson, Hazel, Learmonth, Gemma, Livingstone, Katrina, Muir, Keith, Reeves, Ian, Roberts, Margaret, Rossit, Stephanie   +11 more
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Health-related quality of life and the ability to perform activities of daily living: a cross-sectional study on 1079 war veterans with ankle-foot disorders

Military Medical Research, 2017
Background The ankle-foot injuries are among the war-related injuries that cause many serious secondary problems for a lifetime. This nationwide study aimed to assess health-related quality of life and the ability to perform activities of daily living in
Mostafa Allami, Amir Yavari, Amir Karimi, Mehdi Masoumi, Mohammadreza Soroush, Elahe Faraji   +5 more
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