Midlife work ability and mobility limitation in old age among non-disability and disability retirees - a prospective study [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2016 Background Little is known about the wellbeing and mobility limitation of older disability retirees. Personal and environmental factors, such as time spent in working life, may either exacerbate or mitigate the onset of mobility limitation in general ...
Monika E. von Bonsdorff +8 more
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Impact of Sarcopenia on Falls, Mobility Limitation, and Mortality Using the Diagnostic Criteria Proposed in the Korean Working Group on Sarcopenia Guideline [PDF]
Annals of Geriatric Medicine and ResearchBackground The recent published Korean Working Group on Sarcopenia (KWGS) guideline includes the concept of functional sarcopenia. The study investigated the prevalence of sarcopenia and its association with health-related adverse outcomes defined by the
Ga Yang Shim +3 more
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PLoS ONE, 2016 ObjectivesTo examine gender and regional differences in health expectancies based on the measure of mobility.MethodsHealth expectancies by gender and region were computed by Sullivan's method from the fourth Thai National Health Examination Survey (2009).
Benjawan Apinonkul +4 more
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Recovery From Mobility Limitation in Middle-Aged African Americans: The Jackson Heart Study. [PDF]
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci, 2021 BACKGROUND: Despite evidence that African Americans shoulder a high burden of mobility limitation, little is known about factors associated with recovery.
Odden MC +6 more
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Predicting Future Mobility Limitation in Older Adults: A Machine Learning Analysis of Health ABC Study Data [PDF]
Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 2022 Jaime Lynn Speiser +2 more
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Association of Arterial Stiffness with Functional Disability and Mobility Limitation: The Rugao Longitudinal Ageing Study [PDF]
Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging, 2022 Xiaoyan Jiang, Jin L, Jiang Xiaoyan
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Shoulder Dysfunction and Mobility Limitation in Aging. [PDF]
Adv Geriatr Med Res, 2023 Mobility limitation is common among older populations and is a major burden to public health. While lower extremity dysfunction is a known contributor, the influence of shoulder dysfunction on mobility is less well understood. Shoulder pain and rotator cuff tear are common causes of shoulder dysfunction, and both ailments are highly prevalent in older ...
Davis DL.
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Limits of social mobilization [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013 The Internet and social media have enabled the mobilization of large crowds to achieve time-critical feats, ranging from mapping crises in real time, to organizing mass rallies, to conducting search-and-rescue operations over large geographies. Despite significant success, selection bias may lead to inflated expectations of the efficacy of social ...
Alex Rutherford +5 more
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PREDICTIVE FACTORS OF FUNCTIONAL MOBILITY IN OLDER WOMEN AFTER 12 WEEKS OF RESISTANCE TRAINING
Geriatrics, Gerontology and Aging, 2021 OBJECTIVE: To analyze the association between functional mobility, anthropometric and functional characteristics of older women after 12 weeks of resistance training.
More Torres Montalvão +6 more
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Profiles of behavioral, social and psychological well-being in old age and their association with mobility-limitation-free survival. [PDF]
Aging (Albany NY), 2022 Introduction: Successful aging is a multidimensional construct covering behavioral, social, and psychological domains of well-being. We aimed to identify well-being profiles and their association with mobility-limitation-free survival.
Saadeh M +7 more
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