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Relationship between Depression and Aging Awareness among Frail Older Adults Living Alone in Japan
... live alone; individual connections with their care providers are ...adults living alone assistance that is custo- mized to their health status and social networks, so that they can better self-manage ...
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Impact of Living Alone on Depressive Symptoms in Older Korean Widows
... adults living with their children; however, the society is changing to one where greater value is placed on privacy and independence among young and old alike ...the living arrangements of older adults may ...
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Single women living alone in later life: a short review
... people living on their own has doubled since the 1970s, with single-person households now making up a third of all ...women living alone in later life using data collected in the ‘Understanding ...
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Gender Differences in the Relationship between Living alone and Depressive Symptoms in Elderly Korean Adults
... lived alone, we did not identify any association between living alone and depressive symptoms in older ...of living alone on depressive symptoms in older ...current living ...
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Medication adherence and beliefs about medication in elderly patients living alone with chronic diseases
... This study highlights the perspective that patients’ beliefs about medication influence medication adherence, thus influencing whether they partake in the active role of disease management. Despite the effectiveness of ...
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Using case-based reasoning to detect risk scenarios of elderly people living alone at home
... people living alone at ...people living alone at home, as well as in providing care ...Assisted Living initiative promoted by the European ...
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Mortality of older persons living alone: Singapore Longitudinal Ageing Studies
... ticipants living alone and participants living with others were performed with significance testing using T–test for continuous variables and χ 2 for categorical ...and living alone. ...
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Factors affecting the self rated health of elderly individuals living alone: a cross sectional study
... lives alone [2]. Also, the number of individuals living with their offspring has been decreas- ing each year, and by 2015 there was an estimated 7 mil- lion households with individuals aged ≥ 65 years who ...
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A behavioral medicine intervention for older women living alone with chronic pain – a feasibility study
... live alone, have chronic pain, and be dependent on support are all factors that may have an impact on daily ...women living alone at home, with chronic pain, and dependent on formal care to manage ...
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Living Alone: Five Decades of Change, and Its Implications for Health
... of living alone for older people’s health as the percentage of those living alone within the older population is high in many ...between living alone and older people’s health ...
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Living alone and positive mental health: a systematic review
... those living alone ...that living arrangements are strongly associated with mental health and particularly among men [5]: compared with married persons, per- sons living alone had ...
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What is different about living alone with cancer in older age? A qualitative study of experiences and preferences for care
... live alone with cancer will be an in- creasingly important issue for service providers in the coming ...people living alone, with those of people who live with ...
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Health behaviors influencing depressive symptoms in older Koreans living alone: secondary data analysis of the 2014 Korean longitudinal study of aging
... ent living, which is highly associated with increased de- pressive symptoms [3, ...those living alone are sufficiently competent to handle their own daily living and manage their medical ...
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Intelligent Video Surveillance System for Elderly People Living Alone Based on ODVS
... Intelligent video surveillance for elderly people living alone using Omni-directional Vision Sensor (ODVS) is an im- portant application in the field of intelligent video surveillance. In this paper, an ...
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The association between living alone and health care utilisation in older adults: a retrospective cohort study of electronic health records from a London general practice
... s living arrangements and their health care util- ...people living alone to local non-clinical services, to help support them both emo- tionally and practically [26, 27] or review their care to ...
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Agency and decision making with advocacy support : a qualitative study of people with dementia living alone
... Moreover, Sami and Manthorpe (2013), in their longitudinal study with 12 dyads (the person with dementia and their carer), found that as the disease progressed, the carers’ role changed in the decision-making process. ...
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Smart Services for Managing Solitary Fall Death in a House of the Elderly Living Alone
... The solitary death of elderly people who live alone is a serious social problem, as it threatens human dignity. It is not a question that can be handled by single individuals, so should not be left up to elderly ...
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Attitudes and beliefs of Spanish families regarding their family members aged 75 years and over who live alone: a qualitative study
... Female university graduates tended to hire help, and they tried to modify the home environment to make it more accessible and safer for their elderly family members. However, as reported by the present partici- pants, ...
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Statistics in Focus: Population and social conditions HOUSEHOLDS AND FAMILIES IN THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA 1995 5
... Lone-parent and reconstituted families Although the term "loneparent families" is not used, the UN recommends that fathers and mothers living alone with a child or children be placed in[r] ...
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Recurring Outbreaks of an Infection Apparently Targeting Immune Function, and Consequent Unprecedented Growth in Medical Admission and Costs in the United Kingdom: A Review
... All of the supposedly causative factors such as, supply-induced demand, an ageing population, the elderly living alone, conservative GP and hospital consultant beha[r] ...
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