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Earliest Porotic Hyperostosis on a 1.5-Million-year-old Hominin, olduvai gorge, Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2012
Meat-eating was an important factor affecting early hominin brain expansion, social organization and geographic movement. Stone tool butchery marks on ungulate fossils in several African archaeological assemblages demonstrate a significant level of ...
Agness Gidna, Audax Mabulla, Carmen Arriaza, Charles Musiba, David Uribelarrea, Doris Barboni, Enrique Baquedano, Fernando Diez-Martín, Fred H. Smith, Gail M. Ashley, Gonzalo Trancho, Henry T. Bunn, José Yravedra, Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo, Manuel Santonja, María del Sol Martínez-Ávila, Rebeca Barba, Travis Rayne Pickering   +17 more
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Survival prediction in nursing home residents using the Minimum Data Set subscales: ADL Self-Performance Hierarchy, Cognitive Performance and the Changes in Health, End-stage disease and Symptoms and Signs scales.

European Journal of Public Health, 2009
BACKGROUND With the intention to aid planning for elderly focused public health and residential care needs in rapidly aging societies, a simple model using only age, gender and three Minimum Data Set (MDS) subscales (MDS-ADL Self-Performance Hierarchy ...
Jenny Lee, P. Chau, E. Hui, F. Chan, J. Woo   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

NOTCH2NLC Repeat Expansions in Parkinsonian Disorders: Clinical and Neuroimaging Characteristics

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease (NIID) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by NOTCH2NLC GGC repeat expansions, with heterogeneous clinical manifestations, including parkinsonism. Recent studies have identified NOTCH2NLC repeat expansions in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and atypical parkinsonism (aPM), suggesting ...
Han‐Lin Chiang, Kang‐Yang Jih, Cheng‐Tsung Hsiao, Fu‐Pang Chang, Justus Chunyu Chen, Yi‐Chu Liao, Yih‐Ru Wu, Yi‐Chung Lee   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Networked Intelligent Elderly Care Model Based on Nursing Robots to Achieve Healthy Aging

Research
As global populations become increasingly aged, existing elderly care models are proving insufficient. The development and application of nursing robots have shown potential in addressing the challenges of elder care in aging societies.
Wenting Ji, Ruzhen Luo, Yumei Sun, Maiping Yang, Yueheng Liu, Hua Chen, Dongmei Lin, Ziyi Su, Guangming Tao, Diansheng Chen, Hongyu Sun   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Defining the concepts of a smart nursing home and its potential technology utilities that integrate medical services and are acceptable to stakeholders: a scoping review protocol

BMJ Open, 2021
Introduction Smart technologies, digital health and eHealth have been shown to enhance institutional elderly care. Because of the rapidly ageing societies, information technologies in geriatric healthcare are urgently needed. A lot of innovation in smart
Sazlina Shariff Ghazali, Yuanyuan Zhao, Boon How Chew, Fakhrul Zaman Rokhani   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dignity and the challenge of dying in nursing homes: the residents' view.

Age and Ageing, 2007
BACKGROUND human dignity is discussed in almost all public debates on the care of the dying, as well as in international policies for health and social care of older people.
S. Pleschberger
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Longitudinal Relationship Between Pain and Depression in People With Inflammatory Arthritis: A Narrative Review

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
As many patients with inflammatory arthritis (IA) have chronic pain, understanding how to best assess and manage pain in IA is a priority. Comorbid depression is prevalent in adults with IA, affecting 15% to 39% of people. Although pain and depression are thought to be associated in IA, this concept is largely based on cross‐sectional data.
Natasha Cox, Saeed Farooq, Helen Twohig, Ian C. Scott   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The The functioning of nursing homes in polish law in the context of aging societies

Darnios Aplinkos Vystymas, 2022
The goal of this study is to analyse the Polish regulation of nursing homes from the perspective of an aging society. The respective chapters present the structure of nursing homes, the principles of referring people thereto and the payment for the stay
Michał Soćko
doaj   +1 more source

Special Libraries, March 1946 [PDF]

, 1946
Volume 37, Issue 3https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1946/1002/thumbnail ...
Special Libraries Association
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Ageism in Rheumatology: The Health Care Professional's Perspective

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Ageism (age‐based stereotypes, prejudice, or discrimination) is prevalent and linked to prolonged disability and reduced lifespan in older adults. Little is known about ageism within rheumatology. This study explores the health care professional's (HCP) perception of the care of older adults and how ageist attitudes or perspectives may impact
Aaron P. Smith, Pooja M. Achanta, Jiha Lee, Namrata Singh, Una E. Makris   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source