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Digital exclusion and functional dependence in older people: Findings from five longitudinal cohort studiesResearch in context

EClinicalMedicine, 2022
Summary: Background: Older people are more likely to be excluded from the digital world, and this has been linked to poor health outcomes. The extent and direction of the influence of digital exclusion on functional dependency is, however, not well ...
Xinran Lu, Yao Yao, Yinzi Jin
doaj  

Assessment of functional capacity in patients attending geriatrics outpatient department at Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad

CHRISMED Journal of Health and Research, 2016
Aims: To access the quality of life in terms of functional capacity and to estimate the prevalence of depression among geriatric patients. Settings and Design: A hospital-based study was conducted in Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad between July and September ...
Neeta Mathur
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Does Community-Level Social Capital Predict Decline in Instrumental Activities of Daily Living? A JAGES Prospective Cohort Study

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019
Instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) represent the most relevant action capacity in older people with regard to independent living. Previous studies have reported that there are geographical disparities in IADL decline.
Satoko Fujihara, T. Tsuji, Yasuhiro Miyaguni, J. Aida, M. Saito, S. Koyama, K. Kondo   +6 more
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A large‐scale retrospective study in metastatic breast cancer patients using circulating tumour DNA and machine learning to predict treatment outcome and progression‐free survival

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
There is an unmet need in metastatic breast cancer patients to monitor therapy response in real time. In this study, we show how a noninvasive and affordable strategy based on sequencing of plasma samples with longitudinal tracking of tumour fraction paired with a statistical model provides valuable information on treatment response in advance of the ...
Emma J. Beddowes, Mario Ortega Duran, Solon Karapanagiotis, Alistair Martin, Meiling Gao, Riccardo Masina, Ramona Woitek, James Tanner, Fleur Tippin, Justine Kane, Jonathan Lay, Anja Brouwer, Stephen‐John Sammut, Suet‐Feung Chin, Davina Gale, Dana W. Y. Tsui, Sarah‐Jane Dawson, Nitzan Rosenfeld, Maurizio Callari, Oscar M. Rueda, Carlos Caldas   +20 more
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The role of physical activity in the association between disability and mortality among US older adults: a nationwide prospective cohort study [PDF]

To examine whether physical activity can mitigate the mortality risk associated with disability in activities of daily living and instrumental activities in daily living among older adults. This analysis comprised 177,360 US participants (104,556 women),
Cabanas Sánchez, Verónica, Izquierdo-Gomez, Rocío, Martínez Gómez, David, Ortola Vidal, María Del Rosario, Rodríguez Artalejo, Fernando, Shields, Nora   +5 more
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Taking a positive spin: preserved initiative and performance of everyday activities across mild Alzheimer’s, vascular, and mixed dementia [PDF]

, 2016
Objectives: The literature commonly evaluates those daily activities which are impaired in dementia. However, in the mild stages, people with dementia (PwD) are still able to initiate and perform many of those tasks.
Brown, Chiong, D'Onofrio, Earnst, Fitts, Folstein, Gelinas, Giebel, Giebel, Giebel, Giebel, Gitlin, Glosser, Gopinath, Graham, Hsieh, Kim, Knapskog, Langa, Leys, Liu-Seiffert, Martyr, Martyr, McGuinness, Mioshi, Nagaratnam, Nasreddine, O'Brien, Ouden, Pocnet, Ramsden, Richard, Risco, Ryd, Sikkes, Teunisse, Teunisse, Verlinden, Vermeersch, Voigt-Radloff, Voss   +40 more
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Association of Handgrip Strength and Muscle Mass with Dependency in (Instrumental) Activities of Daily Living in Hospitalized Older Adults -The EMPOWER Study

The Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging, 2019
ObjectivesHandgrip strength (HGS) and muscle mass are strong predictors for dependency in Activities of Daily Living (ADL) and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) in community dwelling older adults.
C. Meskers, E. Reijnierse, Siger T. Numans, R. C. Kruizinga, V. D. Pierik, J. M. V. Ancum, M. Slee-Valentijn, K. Scheerman, S. Verlaan, A. Maier   +9 more
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Multidimensional OMICs reveal ARID1A orchestrated control of DNA damage, splicing, and cell cycle in normal‐like and malignant urothelial cells

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Loss of the frequently mutated chromatin remodeler ARID1A, a subunit of the SWI/SNF cBAF complex, results in less open chromatin, alternative splicing, and the failure to stop cells from progressing through the cell cycle after DNA damage in bladder (cancer) cells. Created in BioRender. Epigenetic regulators, such as the SWI/SNF complex, with important
Rebecca M. Schlösser, Florian Krumbach, Eyleen Corrales, Geoffroy Andrieux, Christian Preisinger, Franziska Liss, Alexandra Golzmann, Melanie Boerries, Kerstin Becker, Ruth Knüchel, Stefan Garczyk, Bernhard Lüscher   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

The IMMED Project: Wearable Video Monitoring of People with Age Dementia [PDF]

, 2010
International audienceIn this paper, we describe a new application for multimedia indexing, using a system that monitors the instrumental activities of daily living to assess the cognitive decline caused by dementia.
André-Obrecht, Régine, Benois-Pineau, Jenny, Dartigues, Jean-François, Dovgalecs, Vladislavs, El Khoury, Elie, Gaëstel, Yann, Joly, Philippe, Karaman, Svebor, Mégret, Rémi, Pinquier, Julien, Wannous, Hazem   +10 more
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An evaluation of the factor structure of the instrumental activities of daily living involvement and capacity scales of the minimum data set for home care for elderly Chinese community dwellers in Hong Kong [PDF]

, 2011
The objective of this study was to evaluate the factor structure of the Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) Involvement and Capacity scales of the Chinese version of the Minimum Data Set-Home Care (MDS-HC) in a sample of Chinese older adults ...
Chi, I, Leung, AYM, Leung, DYP
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