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A Profile of Frail Older Americans and Their Caregivers [PDF]

, 2006
Provides a profile of older Americans and their caregivers, focusing on people age 65 and older who are not in nursing homes, and those with severe disabilities.
Joshua M. Wiener, Richard W. Johnson
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Is the timed-up and go test feasible in mobile devices? A systematic review [PDF]

, 2020
The number of older adults is increasing worldwide, and it is expected that by 2050 over 2 billion individuals will be more than 60 years old. Older adults are exposed to numerous pathological problems such as Parkinson’s disease, amyotrophic lateral ...
Garcia, Nuno, Marques, Gonçalo, Pires, Ivan, Pombo, Nuno, Ponciano, Vasco, Ribeiro, Fernando Reinaldo, Spinsante, Susanna, Zdravevski, Eftim   +7 more
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Approach to the Frail Elderly

Türkiye Fiziksel Tıp ve Rehabilitasyon Dergisi, 2010
Frail elderly syndrome is a geriatric syndrome of increased vulnerability to stressors due to impairments in multiple interrelated systems. Common signs and symptoms are unintentional weight loss, muscle weakness, fatigue, slow walking speed, and progressive functional decline.
Eyigor, Sibel, Kutsal, Yesim Gokce
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A conceptual analysis of subjective health status in frail elderly Korean men [PDF]

Journal of Men's Health
This study seeks to define and examine the concept of subjective health status among the frail elderly Korean men. Using the concept analysis framework by Walker and Avant, 10 articles related to the subjective health status of frail elderly adults ...
Eun Jeong Nam, Sun Jung Park
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The predictive validity of three self-report screening instruments for identifying frail older people in the community

BMC Public Health, 2012
Background If brief and easy to use self report screening tools are available to identify frail elderly, this may avoid costs and unnecessary assessment of healthy people.
Daniels Ramon, van Rossum Erik, Beurskens Anna, van den Heuvel Wim, de Witte Luc   +4 more
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Effects of multi-domain interventions in (pre)frail elderly on frailty, functional, and cognitive status: a systematic review

Clinical Interventions in Aging, 2017
Background Frailty is an aging syndrome caused by exceeding a threshold of decline across multiple organ systems leading to a decreased resistance to stressors.
L. Dedeyne, Mieke Deschodt, S. Verschueren, J. Tournoy, E. Gielen   +4 more
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The relationship between frailty in older adults and anxiety and depression in china: propensity score matching and network analysis

Frontiers in Psychiatry
ObjectiveAnxiety and depression are common mental disorders in the elderly. Concurrent frailty may lead to worse clinical outcomes. This study examined the network structures of anxiety and depression in frail and non-frail older adults.MethodsThe Center
Yinglin Li, Ling Zhao, Doudou Lin, Xinmei Wang, Chunlong Zhang, Jiali Zhou, Zhongxiang Cai   +6 more
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The Influence of Trunk Muscle Strength on Walking Velocity in Elderly People with Sarcopenia [PDF]

, 2020
鈴鹿医療科学大
加藤 康太
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Faces of Neglect [PDF]

, 1988
Hogg Foundation for Mental ...
Dubin, Bettina Adelberg, Lelong, Jacqueline, Smith, Bert Kruger   +2 more
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Sequence determinants of RNA G‐quadruplex unfolding by Arg‐rich regions

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
We show that Arg‐rich peptides selectively unfold RNA G‐quadruplexes, but not RNA stem‐loops or DNA/RNA duplexes. This length‐dependent activity is inhibited by acidic residues and is conserved among SR and SR‐related proteins (SRSF1, SRSF3, SRSF9, U1‐70K, and U2AF1).
Naiduwadura Ivon Upekala De Silva, Puspa Kunwar, Md Ibnul Rifat Rahman, Joanna Koryo Kwao, Nathan Lehman, Zihan Zhang, Trenton Paul, Claire Cheng, Nicholas Truex, Hui‐Ting Lee, Jun Zhang   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source