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Atención Primaria, 2020 Resumen: Objetivo: Evaluar el efecto de una intervención multidimensional en la percepción y el manejo de factores de riesgo intrínsecos y extrínsecos de caídas y en la frecuencia de caídas en personas mayores autovalentes que viven en la comunidad ...
Claudia Bustamante-Troncoso +5 more
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Participation Intention in Fall-prevention Project and Related Influencing Factors in Community-living Elderly Residents at High Risk of Falls [PDF]
Zhongguo quanke yixue, 2022 Background With the aging of the population, it is essential to implement fall prevention programs for the elderly. Although China has carried out fall prevention programs sporadically, among which comprehensive fall prevention programs centered on ...
CHENG Meng, WANG Jian, LI Zhipeng, ZHAO Qi, SUN Xiaoming
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Adaptation Of A Delirium Screening Test For Elderly Adults Admitted To Emergency Departments [PDF]
Geriatrics, Gerontology and AgingOBJECTIVE: Delirium is one of the most frequent syndromes among elderly patients admitted to emergency units and, despite presenting well-established symptoms and signs, there are still diagnostic failures.
Simone Rios Fonseca Ritter +5 more
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Satisfaction with aging and use of preventive health services [PDF]
Preventive Medicine, 2014 Preventive health service use is relatively low among older age groups. We hypothesized that aging satisfaction would be associated with increased use of preventive health services four years later.We conducted multiple logistic regression analyses on a sample of 6177 people from the Health and Retirement Study, a nationally representative study of U.S.
Eric S, Kim +3 more
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Potential prescribing omissions according to START criteria at the time of hospital discharge
Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2021 The purpose of this study is to describe the frequency of potential drug prescribing omissions (PPOs) for elderly patients at the time of hospital discharge and to compare the frequency PPOs among different medical specialities.
Aline Cristina Luz +2 more
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The impact of ageing on expenditures in the National Health Service [PDF]
Age and Ageing, 2002 health policy makers in many countries have expressed concern over the pressures that increased numbers of older people will exert on health care costs. Previous studies have shown that, in addition to increasing size of older populations, per capita expenditures have risen disproportionately among the old compared to the middle age groups ...
Meena, Seshamani, Alastair, Gray
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Primary care and healthcare utilization among older Brazilians (ELSI-Brazil)
Revista de Saúde Pública, 2018 OBJECTIVE To characterize healthcare access and utilization among older Brazilians. METHODS Data are from the baseline wave of the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSI-Brazil), which is a nationally representative, population-based cohort study
James Macinko +3 more
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International Journal of Nursing Sciences, 2021 Objectives: From the view of everyday practices and the socio-technical coordination lens, this study aimed to analyz the gap between creators’ intention and the users’ implementation (mainly nursing staff and social workers) of an alert system in ...
Isa Jahnke +4 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Adolescents with high‐risk cancer face complex developmental, psychosocial, and ethical challenges that extend beyond disease‐directed treatment. Although international recommendations exist for communication, psychosocial care, pediatric palliative care, survivorship, and shared decision‐making, these have largely evolved within ...
Johanna M. C. Blom +15 more
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, 1975 Another important step in taking care of yourself is to set aside, during each day, some time which is reserved solely for doing things for yourself.
O'Connor, Joyce +2 more
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