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Fall Prevention in Community-Dwelling Older Adults
Annals of Internal Medicine, 2018Falls are common among older adults. One in 3 adults aged 65 years or older and 1 in 2 adults aged 80 years or older fall each year. Interventions for prevention have been identified; however, they are often not addressed in primary care practice.
Elizabeth A, Phelan, Katherine, Ritchey
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Fall Prevention in Community-Dwelling Older Adults
JAMA, 2013Which types of interventions reduce falls in older people living in the community?Fall-prevention exercise programs, usually including muscle strengthening and balance retraining, were associated with lower fall rates in community-dwelling older people whether or not individuals were selected on the basis of fall risk.
M Clare, Robertson, Lesley D, Gillespie
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Advance Directives and Community-Dwelling Older Adults
Western Journal of Nursing Research, 2002Advance directives (ADs) are documents that allow competent individuals to set forth their medical treatment wishes and/or to name a proxy in the event that they lose the capacity to communicate these decisions in the future. Despite the benefits of and support for such documents, very few people have completed an AD.
Carole F, Hamel +3 more
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Reinvestment and Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults
Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 2007Background. Falls are common in older adults and have many adverse consequences. In an attempt to prevent further incidents, elder fallers may consciously monitor and control their movements. Ironically, conscious movement control may be one factor that contributes to disruption of automaticity of walking, increasing the likelihood of subsequent falls.
Wong, W. L. +3 more
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Resilience in Rural Community‐Dwelling Older Adults
The Journal of Rural Health, 2009ABSTRACT: Context:Identifying ways to meet the health care needs of older adults is important because their numbers are increasing and they often have more health care issues. High resilience level may be one factor that helps older adults adjust to the hardships associated with aging.
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Periodontal care for community-dwelling older adults
The Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry, 1994The prevalence and severity of periodontitis increases with age. Epidemiologic studies have identified several risk variables associated with advancing periodontitis in older adults: namely tobacco smoking, frequency of dental appointments, infection with anaerobic bacteria considered periodontal pathogens, plaque and calculus accumulation, and some ...
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Nutritional screening in community dwelling older adults
International Journal of Older People Nursing, 2010callen b.l. (2010) Nutritional screening in community dwelling older adults. International Journal of Older People Nursing6, 272–281 doi: 10.1111/j.1748‐3743.2010.00241.xAims and objectives. The purpose of this study was to test whether a combination of validated tools, one for each of five leading nutritional risk factors, could predict unintentional
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Parameters of Gait Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults
Journal of Geriatric Physical Therapy, 2015Functional fitness is the ability of an older adult to perform activities of daily living. Stair-climb power is a well-documented marker of functional fitness among older adults. Gait velocity and parameters of gait are related to functional fitness but have been understudied to date.The purpose of this observational study was to determine differences ...
Sally, Paulson, Michelle, Gray
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Enhancing self-care in community dwelling older adults
Geriatric Nursing, 2004This article describes the development of an enrichment program to promote social support, coping with aging, and enhancing self-care in a sample of African American older adults living independently in low-income public housing. To address the needs of the increasing population of older adults in the United States, health initiatives that foster ...
Linda D, Gerson +3 more
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Beliefs about worry in community-dwelling older adults
Depression and Anxiety, 2006This study examines the association between several kinds of beliefs about worry and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) severity in a sample of older individuals recruited from a community setting (N=142, mean age=71.0 years, SD=6.0, range=55-88).
Montorio, Ignacio +2 more
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