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Cardio-metabolic and socio-demographic risk factors associated with dependency in basic and instrumental activities of daily living among older Iranian adults: Bushehr elderly health program

BMC Geriatrics, 2021
Background Iran’s population is aging. Disability is a major public health problem for older adults, not only in Iran but all over the world. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between cardio-metabolic and socio-demographic ...
Kazem Khalagi, Akram Ansarifar, Noushin Fahimfar, Mahnaz Sanjari, Safoora Gharibzdeh, Farshad Sharifi, Gita Shafiee, Ramin Heshmat, Iraj Nabipour, Bagher Larijani, Afshin Ostovar   +10 more
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Aged: functional capacity for basic and instrumental activities of daily living

Revista de Pesquisa Cuidado é Fundamental Online, 2014
OBJETIVO: Avaliar a capacidade funcional das pessoas idosas residentes em duas instituições de longa permanência de um município da região da campanha/RS.
Leticia Silveira Cardoso, Bárbara Tarouco da Silva, Daiane dos Santos Rodrigues, Cristiana Lopes Leal, Marcelo Clarete Seracini Penner   +4 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, Agnieszka Wiśniowska-Szurlej, Anna Wilmowska-Pietruszyńska, Bernard Sozański   +3 more
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Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Expenditures in Dependent Older Adults: Results From an Economic Evaluation Study in Mexico

Frontiers in Public Health, 2020
Background: Dependence is a significant health-related condition for older adults (OA) and implies that self-care is transferred to other people, the community or institutions.
Aarón Salinas-Rodríguez, Betty Manrique-Espinoza, Irina Torres Mussot, Julio Cesar Montañez-Hernández   +3 more
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Assessment of functional capacity in patients attending geriatrics outpatient department at Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad

CHRISMED Journal of Health and Research, 2016
Aims: To access the quality of life in terms of functional capacity and to estimate the prevalence of depression among geriatric patients. Settings and Design: A hospital-based study was conducted in Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad between July and September ...
Neeta Mathur
doaj   +1 more source

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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Predictors of Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Performance in Patients with Stroke

Occupational Therapy International, 2021
Objective. Instrumental activities of daily livings are important for independent living and active participation in the community. The present study is aimed at determining factors predicting instrumental activities of daily living performance in ...
Amin Ghaffari, Hamid Reza Rostami, Malahat Akbarfahimi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Association Between Individualized Education for Kidney Replacement Therapy Modality Selection and Peritoneal Dialysis Initiation: A Cross‐Sectional Study

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is an established home‐based kidney replacement therapy (KRT), but its uptake remains low in Japan. We evaluated whether individualized education in a dedicated outpatient clinic was associated with the initiation of PD.
Yasuko Ito, Ryuichi Yoshimura, Takaki Yamauchi, Yuta Funakoshi, Hirotaka Sonoda, Seiji Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Terawaki, Takafumi Ito   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The bidirectional relationship between activities of daily living and frailty during short-and long-term follow-up period among the middle-aged and older population: findings from the Chinese nationwide cohort study

Frontiers in Public Health
ObjectiveFrailty and activities of daily living (ADL) disability are common conditions among older population. Studies on the bidirectional relationship between frailty and ADL are limited.
Xiaoping Li, Xiaoguang Li, Lu Sun, Liu Yang, Congzhi Wang, Ting Yuan, Yunxiao Lei, Jing Li, Mingming Liu, Dongmei Zhang, Ying Hua, Haiyang Liu, Lin Zhang   +12 more
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Contextual income and incidence of disability: results of EpiFloripa Elderly Cohort

Revista de Saúde Pública, 2019
OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the association between contextual income and the incidence of disability in basic and instrumental activities of daily living. METHODS: This is a cohort study, with sample of elderly individuals (n = 1,196) residing in Florianópolis,
Ana Lúcia Danielewicz, Eleonora d’Orsi, Antonio Fernando Boing   +2 more
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