Community-dwelling
Deprescribing interventions and their impact on medication adherence in community dwelling older adults with polypharmacy: a systematic review
... A mixed methods systematic review of the literature was undertaken on deprescribing interventions and medication adherence in community-dwelling older adults with poly- pharmacy. Registered as PROSPERO ...
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Prevelence and compare the level of dementia among old age home dwelling elders and community dwelling elders
... home dwelling elders and community dwelling elders of ...those dwelling in old age home where 14% had mild level of dementia but Moderate level of dementia was higher (3%) in old age home ...
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Social support and depression among community dwelling elderly
... Aging is the process of getting older and is characterized by changes in the biological, psychological and social functioning of an individual. A significant feature of these changes is marked by decline and ...
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The Yamaguchi fox/pigeon-imitation test, a brief cognitive performance rating tool, in a community-dwelling population: normative data for Japanese subjects – a preliminary study
... There were several limitations in this study. We did not perform imaging studies, such as magnetic resonance imaging, and the examination of cognitive function was limited to the MMSE. Therefore, the causes of CI were ...
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Lack of anticipated support for care for community dwelling older adults
... for community-dwelling older ...for community-dwelling older adults was a good indicator of risk for lack of anticipated support for care in women, older adults who live alone and those with ...
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Psychological effects of exercise on community-dwelling older adults
... as community cen- ters are difficult to recruit for RCTs because participants in the intervention group, who complete a voluntary exercise program, possibly have higher awareness about exercise and their own ...
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Multimorbidity, disability, and mortality in community-dwelling older adults
... Objective To describe factors associated with multimorbidity in community-dwelling older adults; to determine if a simple measure of multimorbidity predicts death over 5 years; and to [r] ...
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Predictors of Quality of Life of Institutionalized and Community-Dwelling Elderly
... In the current care practices of elderly among families, it is generally observed that elderly living with adult family members or distant kins, is the most common living arrangement. However, in the past three years, ...
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Cost and outcome of occupation-based practice for community dwelling frail elderly: a pilot study
... were community dwelling frail elderly who received preventive services in 37 local elderly care management centers (recruitment period from October 2016 to February ...
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Reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the Community Integration Measure for community-dwelling people with schizophrenia
... were community-dwelling people with schizophrenia living in the urban areas of Yokohama and Kawasaki in Kanagawa, ...the community; (3) aged 18–64 years; and (4) discharged for at least one and a ...
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Psychometric properties of the Persian version of Social Adaptation Self-evaluation Scale in community-dwelling older adults
... Participants and methods: This is a cross-sectional and methodological study. The partici- pants were 550 community-dwelling older adults living in Tehran who were selected randomly from the primary health ...
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Frailty in community-dwelling older adults: association with adverse outcomes
... Our results show an association between frailty and presence of falls in adults studied in the last year. This could be due to the weakness and low resistance displayed by older adults with this disorder. It has been ...
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Effects of frailty and chronic diseases on quality of life in Dutch community-dwelling older adults: a cross-sectional study
... nents of frailty, subdivided into three domains: physical (eight components, range 0–8 points), psychological (four components, range 0–4 points), and social (three items, range 0–3 points). Table 1 presents these 15 ...
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Correlation of ankle flexibility to balance and functional mobility in community dwelling elderly
... by community dwelling elderly people and are associated with reduced walking speed, 5 difficulty in performing activities of daily living 5,6 and increased risk of ...
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Nicotine dependence in community-dwelling Chinese patients with schizophrenia
... Almost all the studies have focused on the prevalence of smoking in patients with schizo- phrenia 8–10 rather than nicotine dependence. Nicotine dependence is an important issue associated with cardiovascular and respi- ...
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Association between Frailty Syndrome and Anemia in Community Dwelling Elderly
... The wide variety of instruments and criteria used to define frailty in commu- nity-dwelling elderly lead to discrepancies and non-comparable results regarding the prevalence of this syndrome [5] [14]. The present ...
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Apathy is associated with incident dementia in community-dwelling older people
... Our results suggest symptoms of apathy are associated with incident dementia in community-dwelling older people without cognitive impairment. This association is in- dependent of depressive symptoms, age, ...
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Social and Health Status of Community Dwelling Older Adults in Nepal
... Regarding self-reported health status of community-dwelling Nepalese elder- ly, this study found over three-quarters (76.5%) of older adults with some phys- ical health problem, over half (52.6%) with some ...
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Mental disorders in the community dwelling elderly
... al, 1986; Sunderland et al, 1989; W olf-Klein et al, 1989; Tuokko et al, 1992; M endez et al, 1992; Ben Yehuda et al, 1995; Brodaty et al, 1997). It is likely that the high rates produced by some of the other studies ...
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FAITH BLIND CARE: HOW FAITH BASED LEADERS CARED FOR COMMUNITY DWELLING OLDER ADULTS IN A NATURAL DISASTER
... communities. Community dwelling older adults are more vulnerable in a natural disaster due to mobility ...affected community (Stangeland, 2010; Williams& Spruill, ...a community-based ...
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