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Dress and age: the intersection of life and work [PDF]
, 2015 In this article I outline the influences, intellectual and personal, that have led me to the subject of dress and age, a topic that I have explored with great enjoyment over the last decade.
Twigg, Julia
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Family Caregivers’ Knowledge of Delirium and Preferred Modalities for Receipt of Information [PDF]
, 2014 Delirium is a life-threatening, frequently reversible condition that is often a sign of an underlying health problem. In-hospital mortality alone for older adults with delirium ranges from 25% to 33%.
Boaz, Lesley +2 more
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Universities of the Third Age : a rationale for transformative education in later life [PDF]
, 2010 This article addresses the political context of third-age learning. It aims to expose how relations of power and inequality, in their myriad combinations and complexities, are manifest in Universities of the Third Age [U3As].
Formosa, Marvin
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Geriatrics in Serbia nowadays [PDF]
Biomedicinska istraživanja, 2018 The first hospital department for the treatment of elderly people in the world was founded by Laza Lazarević in Belgrade in 1881. The Division of Geriatrics of the Department of Internal Medicine at the City Hospital in Belgrade was founded in 1963, as
Mladen Davidović, Milan Ivanović
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Motor Output Variability Impairs Driving Ability in Older Adults [PDF]
, 2016 Background: The functional declines with aging relate to deficits in motor control and strength. In this study, we determine whether older adults exhibit impaired driving as a consequence of declines in motor control or strength. Methods: Young and older
Christou, Evangelos A. +4 more
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Kōtuitui, 2022 Aotearoa, New Zealand’s (NZ) initial pandemic response has been held up internationally as a model of social cohesion and compassion, made salient by the ‘team of five million’ messaging promoted by the New Zealand government.
Tessa Morgan +9 more
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Provider Perspectives on the Influence of Family on Nursing Home Resident Transfers to the Emergency Department: Crises at the End of Life. [PDF]
, 2015 Background. Nursing home (NH) residents often experience burdensome and unnecessary care transitions, especially towards the end of life. This paper explores provider perspectives on the role that families play in the decision to transfer NH residents to
Bui, Nhat +6 more
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International Journal of Ageing and Later Life, 2018 Gerontology has a longstanding tradition of researching the relationship between older adults and their socio-spatial environments. However, environmental gerontology often shares a positivistic understanding of space as either a “prosthetic” or a ...
Anna Wanka +2 more
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Visual Acuity does not Moderate Effect Sizes of Higher-Level Cognitive Tasks. [PDF]
, 2016 Background/study contextDeclining visual capacities in older adults have been posited as a driving force behind adult age differences in higher-order cognitive functions (e.g., the "common cause" hypothesis of Lindenberger & Baltes, 1994, Psychology ...
Allen, Philip A +3 more
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Ubiquity of Fractals in Gerontology
Recoletos Multidisciplinary Research Journal, 2013 This study compares the fractal dimensions of certain characteristics of the aging population which exhibited irregularity in patterns such as population distribution, life expectancy and living arrangements in developed and developing countries.
Daisy R. Palompon +2 more
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