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Association of Frailty with recovery from disability among community-dwelling Chinese older adults: China health and retirement longitudinal study

BMC Geriatrics, 2020
Backgrounds Little is known about the role of frailty in the recovery process of disability among older adults. We examined the association between frailty and recovery from activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental ADL (IADL) disability among ...
Weihao Xu, Ya-Xi Li, Yixin Hu, Chenkai Wu   +3 more
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The process of decline in advanced activities of daily living: a qualitative explorative study in mild cognitive impairment [PDF]

, 2012
Background: The notion of "minimal impairment in instrumental activities of daily living (i-ADL)" is important in the diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), but is presently not adequately operationalized. ADL is stratified according to difficulty,
Cornelis, Elise, DE VRIENDT, PATRICIA, Gorus, Ellen, Mets, Tony, Petrovic, Mirko, Velghe, Anja   +5 more
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Chronological Rehabilitation Treatment Varying by Stage for Constructive Disability

Clinics and Practice, 2023
Constructive disability poses significant challenges. However, such manifestations are often overlooked. To address these disabilities, customized rehabilitation is necessary across disease stages.
Takana Okamoto, Tomoo Mano
doaj   +1 more source

Use of personal call alarms among community-dwelling older people. [PDF]

, 2012
Having a fall and then lying on the floor for an hour or more is known as a ‘long lie’, which are associated with serious injury and an elevated risk of admission to hospital, long-term care, and death.
Brownsell, CHRISTINA R. VICTOR, Field, Levine, Marmot, Marmot, Martin, McKee, Noury, Nunn, Nyman, Prado-Velasco, Punie, Rosenberg, SAMUEL R. NYMAN, Scholes, Skelton, Steel, Taylor, Todd, Victor   +20 more
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Health-related quality of life in Brazilian community-dwelling and institutionalized elderly: Comparison between genders [PDF]

, 2016
Objective: To compare the health-related quality of life (HRQL) indicators between institutionalized and community-dwelling elderly men and women.
Cendoroglo, Maysa Seabra, Cucato, Gabriel, de Carvalho, José Maria Maluf, de Matos, Luciana Diniz Nagem Janot, de Mello Franco, Fábio Gazelato, Monteiro-Costa, Maria Luiza, Nasri, Fábio, Ritti-Dias, Raphael Mendes   +7 more
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Impact of sarcopenia on intertrochanteric femoral fracture in the elderly [PDF]

PeerJ, 2022
Objective The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of skeletal sarcopenia on the prognosis of intertrochanteric fracture in the elderly. Methods We collected information on 144 patients with femoral intertrochanteric fracture (FIF).
Shunli Jiang, Yu Ding, Lixing Kang
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Cognitive and neuroimaging predictors of instrumental activities of daily living [PDF]

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 2007
Impaired ability to conduct daily activities is a diagnostic criterion for dementia and a determinant of healthcare services utilization and caregiver burden. What predicts decline in instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) is not well understood.
Helena C. Chui, Danielle J Harvey, Dan M Mungas, Margaret E. Wetzel, Sarah E Tomaszewski Farias, Joel H. Kramer, Deborah A. Cahn-Weiner, Laura Julian, Bruce R Reed   +8 more
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Trajectories of decline on instrumental activities of daily living prior to dementia in persons with mild cognitive impairment

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2020
The main objective was to determine the trajectory of instrumental activities of daily living (iADL) decline in persons with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) who progressed towards dementia relative to persons with MCI who remained stable.
Simon Cloutier, H. Chertkow, M. Kergoat, I. Gélinas, S. Gauthier, S. Belleville   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A randomized trial of a multicomponent home intervention to reduce functional difficulties in older adults [PDF]

, 2006
OBJECTIVES: To test the efficacy of a multicomponent intervention to reduce functional difficulties, fear of falling, and home hazards and enhance self-efficacy and adaptive coping in older adults with chronic conditions. DESIGN: A prospective, two-group,
Arfken, Bandura, Bradley, Bruce, Cohen, Corcoran, Cumming, Elkan, Ettinger, Ferrucci, Folstein, Fried, Gill, Gill, Gill, Gitlin, Gitlin, Gitlin, Greiner, Hinojosa, Hortobagyi, Kravitz, Kressig, Lawton, Lorig, Mann, Manton, Marshall, Morris, Naik, Powell, Radloff, Rich, Schulz, Shumway-Cook, Spillman, Stuck, Tennstedt, Tinetti, Tinetti, Tinetti, Van Haastregt, Verbrugge, Vladeck, Wrosch   +44 more
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Frailty and depression predict instrumental activities of daily living in older adults: A population-based longitudinal study using the CARE75+ cohort

PLoS ONE, 2020
Objectives To evaluate if depression contributes, independently and/or in interaction with frailty, to loss of independence in instrumental activities of daily living (ADL) in older adults with frailty.
P. Coventry, D. McMillan, A. Clegg, L. Brown, C. M. van der Feltz-Cornelis, S. Gilbody, Shehzad Ali   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source