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The tutoring role of mentors working with adults and elderly people with learning disabilities using virtual environments [PDF]
This article outlines the potential of virtual training environments in the rehabilitation of adults and elderly people with learning disabilities. Before such virtual training environments are developed, tutoring roles for mentors working with adults ...
Brown, DJ, Standen, PJ
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Depression is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of will or laziness. It is not a simple “being sad” or bored, but rather a pathology that needs intervention, treatment, and monitoring by professionals with expertise in mental health.
Teresa Catarina Paiva+2 more
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Applicability of trials in rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis: A systematic review and meta-analysis of trial populations showing adequate proportion of women, but underrepresentation of elderly people [PDF]
Objectives: To evaluate whether elderly people and women are adequately represented in randomized controlled trials (RCT) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and osteoarthritis (OA).
Boers, Maarten+6 more
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Robot-assisted training of the kinesthetic sense: enhancing proprioception after stroke
Proprioception has a crucial role in promoting or hindering motor learning. In particular, an intact position sense strongly correlates with the chances of recovery after stroke.
Dalia eDe Santis+9 more
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BackgroundWellbeing may have a protective role in health maintenance. However, no specific study clarified the particular protective effect of the subjective wellbeing of rural elderly people on survival probability.
Xian Li+7 more
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Insomnia in elderly people [PDF]
An elderly man presented with chronic sleep problems that had recently worsened. He had evidence of disseminated vascular disease with residual left-sided weakness following a stroke. The examination was otherwise unremarkable, but his metabolic profile revealed electrolyte and vitamin deficiencies and an elevated parathyroid hormone level ...
Priyanga Jayakumar+2 more
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INTRODUCTION Health problems may negatively affect the psychological and physical aspects of life, influencing the quality of life of older adults. The objective of this study was to analyze the effects of physical activity on quality of life, anxiety ...
Lucineide da Silva Santos Castelo Branco de Oliveira+4 more
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The role of public transport in addressing sustainable mobility for the elderly population in Malta [PDF]
Over the past few years, several countries have continued experiencing a growth in their elderly population. Similarly, a number of towns and villages in Malta registered a high elderly population in the last census (NSO, 2012).
Attard, Maria, Mifsud, Deborah
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Review of neurosurgical operative procedures in patients in the tenth decade of life
People over the age of 90 are hospitalized in neurosurgical departments, and the increase of life expectancy is conducive to such cases. Surgical treatment in older people is always at high risk, which may be due to the frailty syndrome that occurs ...
Zygmunt Siedlecki+3 more
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Background: The elderly period is a gift in human life because not all humans can experience this period. The elderly period experience changes in anatomical and physiological functions, so the elderly are very vulnerable to health problems. Many factors
Retno Setyowati+4 more
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