Acta Scientiarum. Health Sciences, 2013 The objective of the study was to analyze the age marker in males and females as a predictor of the absence of frailty syndrome in the elderly. This was a cross-sectional study with 624 individuals.
Sheilla Tribess +5 more
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Periodontitis and the Elderly: An Overview of the Disease and its Impact on an Aging Population [PDF]
, 2019 Periodontitis affects millions of Americans each year, and is especially prevalent among the elderly. Since periodontitis is a chronic, progressive condition, uninterrupted disease progression leads to irreversible oral damage; therefore, periodontitis ...
Weissenfluh, Nicole Grace
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Aging Well: Informing Seniors About Local Resources Throughout The Aging Process [PDF]
, 2017 A large portion of the Franklin County population is elderly and above the age of 60. They have many unique socioeconomic barriers to healthcare that add to the difficulty of maintaining independence in the community.
Paladugu, Sravana
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Do Drug Plans Matter? Effects of Drug Plan Eligibility on Drug Use Among the Elderly, Social Assistance Recipients and the General Population [PDF]
The 1984 Canada Health Act does not require that the provinces subsidize prescription drugs. Many provinces do, however, provide categorical coverage to the elderly, social assistance recipients and others, although the generosity of coverage is highly ...
Mitchell Levine, Paul V. Grootendorst
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Elderly health, wealth and coresidence with adult children in rural India [PDF]
, 2006 Little is known about the living conditions of a growing number of elderly in India who predominantly coreside with their children. Mutual sharing of responsibilities is important in coresidency arrangements involving exchange of financial and other ...
Pal, S
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SAGE Open Medicine, 2019 Objectives: To describe how principles of self-regulation and social support could be integrated in a group intervention to improve self-management of people with type 2 diabetes mellitus in the early phase of illness and to pilot its suitability in a ...
Anne L van Puffelen +4 more
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Elderly Health and Salaries in the Mexican Labor Market [PDF]
Little work exists on elderly health, work and salaries in developing countries. This paper aims to contribute to this literature in the areas of health and income of the elderly.
Susan W. Parker
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Frailty In Older Adults Attending An Outpatient Geriatric Clinic As Measured By The Visual Scale Of Frailty [PDF]
Geriatrics, Gerontology and AgingBACKGROUND: Existing instruments for the diagnosis of frailty are limited by their focus on mobility evaluation, failure to incorporate comorbidities, and dichotomous classification of patients as frail or non-frail, which hinders adequate identification
Marco Túlio Gualberto Cintra +6 more
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Patients’ experiences with fluctuations in persistent physical symptoms: a qualitative study
BMJ Open, 2020 Objectives To explore patients’ experiences with fluctuations in persistent physical symptoms (PPS) and to understand which factors—from their viewpoint—play a role in these fluctuations.Design Qualitative study using semistructured interviews and ...
Johannes C van der Wouden +8 more
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Measuring Differences in the Effect of Social Resource Factors on the Health of Elderly Canadian Men and Women [PDF]
It is well-documented that differences in the exposure to social resources play a significant role in influencing gender inequalities in health in old age.
Ellen Gee, Steven G. Prus
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