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Falls in community‐dwelling prefrail older adults
Health & Social Care in the Community, 2019 Frailty has been established as a risk factor for falls, and prefrailty also seems a risk; however, few studies have focused on the association between falls and each of the five components of frailty proposed by Fried. In the present study, we sought to elucidate the association between prefrailty and falls, and moreover, the association of frailty ...
Hiroyuki Umegaki +6 more
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Assessment of physical activity in older Belgian adults : validity and reliability of an adapted interview version of the long International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ-L) [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Adequate monitoring of older adults’ physical activity (PA) is essential to develop effective health promotion programs. The present study examined criterion validity and test-retest reliability of the long International Physical Activity ...
De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse +4 more
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The relationship between attentional processing of emotional information and personality : a comparison between older and younger adults [PDF]
, 2019 Older adults have been found to focus more on positive and less on negative information compared to younger adults. Yet, results on this attentional positivity effect are inconsistent.
De Raedt, Rudi +3 more
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Analyzing Analgesic Medications in Community-Dwelling Older Adults [PDF]
Pain Medicine, 2018 Analyzing medication data for research purposes is complex, and methods are rarely described in the literature. Our objective was to describe methods of quantifying opioid and nonopioid analgesics and to compare the utility of five different analgesic coding methods when analyzing relationships between pain, analgesic use, and clinical outcomes.
Ann L, Horgas +3 more
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Prevalence of frailty and prefrailty among community-dwelling older adults in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
, 2018 OBJECTIVE: To systematically review the research conducted on prevalence of frailty and prefrailty among community-dwelling older adults in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) and to estimate the pooled prevalence of frailty and prefrailty in ...
Hardoon, S +4 more
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Frontiers in Aging NeuroscienceObjectivesTo explore the latent profiles of loneliness in community-dwelling older adults and to explore the relationship between categories and cognitive functioning to inform targeted interventions.MethodsA survey was conducted on 658 elderly ...
Lei Yang +8 more
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Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2023 The COVID-19 pandemic increased social isolation for many older adults, causing concern for their health and well-being. To enhance understanding of how community-dwelling older adults were impacted by prolonged social isolation during COVID-19, a ...
A. Garnett PhD +5 more
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Sālmand, 2021 Objectives: Social participation in older adults is one of the key pillars of active aging. Social participation is influenced by multiple underlying factors.
Amene Setareh Forouzan +3 more
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Lack of anticipated support for care for community-dwelling older adults [PDF]
, 2016 Objective: to identify the factors associated with lack of anticipated support for care for community-dwelling older adults. Method: this study presents comparison and logistic regression analyses of data from 671 individuals who took part of the ...
D'Elboux, Maria José +2 more
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Frontiers in Public HealthPurposeThe health-promoting lifestyle has an impact on the quality of life of older people. This study aimed to explore the subgroup characteristics and predictors of health-promoting lifestyles among community-dwelling older adults.MethodsThis study ...
Jianyi Bao +9 more
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