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Low-level support for socially isolated older people: An evaluation of telephone befriending [PDF]
, 2008 In May 2005 Help the Aged and Zurich Community Trust launched a two year national programme ‘A Call in Time’. The purpose of the programme was to provide low level support and befriending services via the telephone to older people who are lonely ...
Cattan, M, Kime, NH, Bagnall, A
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Ageing and vascular ageing [PDF]
Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2006 Abstract There is an age related decline in various physiological processes. Vascular ageing is associated with changes in the mechanical and the structural properties of the vascular wall, which leads to the loss of arterial elasticity and reduced arterial compliance.
B, Jani, C, Rajkumar
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 2004 According to the antagonistic pleiotropy theory of ageing, natural selection has favoured genes conferring short-term benefits to the organism at the cost of deterioration in later life. The 'disposable soma' theory expresses this as a life-history strategy in which somatic maintenance is below the level required to prevent ageing, thus enabling higher
Peter D, Sozou, Robert M, Seymour
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MARK-AGE biomarkers of ageing [PDF]
Mechanisms of Ageing and Development, 2015 Many candidate biomarkers of human ageing have been proposed in the scientific literature but in all cases their variability in cross-sectional studies is considerable, and therefore no single measurement has proven to serve a useful marker to determine, on its own, biological age.
Bürkle, Alexander +29 more
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The future of Age and Ageing [PDF]
Age and Ageing, 2002 The delivery of healthcare in the United Kingdom is going through a period of change, with many new developments. Some of these represent the aspirations of politicians and those who manage the National Health Service, and others are being forced upon us because of the shortage of resources (not always financial).
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A kortársbántalmazás tágabb kontextusa: néhány iskolai és társadalmi változó szempontjából
Metszetek, 2016 A kortársbántalmazás (bullying) kiterjedt probléma az iskolai közösségekben. Gyakorisága azonban jelentős eltérést mutat iskolák, régiók, nemzetek között.
Dóra Várnai +2 more
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Providing and financing aged care in Australia [PDF]
, 2010 This article focuses on the provision and financing of aged care in Australia. Demand for aged care will increase substantially as a result of population aging, with the number of Australians aged 85 and over projected to increase from 400,000 in 2010 to
Francesco Paolucci +6 more
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Frailty and pain in an acute private hospital: an observational point prevalence study
Scientific Reports, 2023 Frailty and pain in hospitalised patients are associated with adverse clinical outcomes. However, there is limited data on the associations between frailty and pain in this group of patients.
Rosemary Saunders +15 more
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Diagnostic and Prognostic Research, 2020 Background For residential aged care facility (RACF) residents with dementia, lack of prognostic guidance presents a significant challenge for end of life care planning.
Ross Bicknell +3 more
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Age and Ageing: An Overview [PDF]
Occupational Medicine, 2000 Europe is ageing, as exemplified by the UK population where, in the foreseeable future, more people will be over than under age 50: industry appears slow to recognise and appreciate all that older workers still have to offer: bundling them off into early retirement wastes precious talents. Memory difficulty is not an inevitable part of ageing.
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