Older people -- Functional assessment
Assessment of Appropriateness of Screening Community-Dwelling Older People to Prevent Functional Decline
... The authors thank DJA van Dijk-van Dijk, MSc, Leiden University Medical Center and BJC Middelkoop, MD, PhD, Leiden University Medical Center, for general advice and all experts for their literature review and for ...
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The assessment of pain in older people: UK national guidelines
... in older people does require taking into account both the som- atic co-morbidities and the psychosocial ...associated functional limita- tions may be an indicator of distress and of a need for ...s ...
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Effects of conventional versus multimodal vestibular rehabilitation on functional capacity and balance control in older people with chronic dizziness from vestibular disorders: design of a randomized clinical trial
... during this research. Hence, this study must be categor- ized as single blind, since only the outcome assessor will be unaware of intervention assignment. Even though the patients will be consciously under VR, they will ...
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Assessment and management of nutrition in older people and its importance to health
... the older population and affects the aging ...in: functional status, impaired muscle function, decreased bone mass, immune dysfunction, anemia, reduced cognitive function, poor wound healing, delayed ...
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The design of the Dutch EASYcare study: a randomised controlled trial on the effectiveness of a problem based community intervention model for frail elderly people [NCT00105378]
... regard functional loss and depend- ency as consequences of the aging process itself when dis- ease is ...than people who age without many complica- tions ...frail older people have proven ...
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The effect of a gerontology nurse specialist for high needs older people in the community on healthcare utilisation: a controlled before-after study
... comprehensive assessment and care coordin- ...identifying older adults with disability ...to older people who met eligibility criteria in the intervention ...all older people ...
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NUMBER 8 The assessment of pain in older people NATIONAL GUIDELINES
... all people working with older ...limiting functional ability and impairing the quality of ...for Older People placed great emphasis on the dignity of older ...
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Risk assessment during preventive home visits among older people
... multidimensional assessment for the risk of developing illness including 12 subscales: declining health, declining functional level, loneliness, risk of falling, recently moved, declining sight/hearing, ...
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Occupational therapy and older people : assessment and evaluation of health and wellbeing
... Outcome measures -Mini-Mental Status Exam, Functional Status Questionnaire, SF-36(V2), Centre for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale, Life Satisfaction Index-Z Scale, and the [r] ...
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Relationship between Nutritional Status and Functional Capacity for Older People
... questionnaires, assessment of functional capacity was obtained by ap- plying the scale of activities of daily living through the Katz index (ADL) [14], comprising bathing, dressing, toileting, transferring ...
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Non communicable chronic diseases in elderly and its association with clinical and psychiatric morbidities
... in older adults, among those who did not live with a partner, in the least educated, with lower income, who had clinical and psychiatric comorbidities and who had worst self-rated their health ...
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Systematic review of EASY care needs assessment for community dwelling older people
... Several papers have commented on EASY-Care’s development [3, 7, 8] but no systematic review analysing the potential benefits of using EASY-Care as a tool to support comprehensive geriatric assessment for community ...
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Representations of age and ageing in comedy film
... of older people in film, the actor Paul Hogan seems a wise choice for the role of ...off people over a ‘certain age’ as useless objects of ...
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Functional assessment of people practicing Brazilian martial art – Capoeira
... 7. Rotational Stability enables assessment of torso stability in the sagittal plane. Before attempting to the pattern, a provocative test would be performed consisting of extending the thoracic segment in a ...
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Exploring the assessment process on a ward for older people : a constructivist grounded theory
... in an instant which could then be filed automatically in a digital patient folder. For instance, the urine of a patient who is treated for dehydration should become lighter in colour as the patient is treated with ...
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Identifying Tools That Assess Factors That May Lead to Adverse Effects in Australian Aged-Care Facilities: A Scoping Review
... This tool had set out to develop an indicator list relevant to Australia the design did not involve an expert consensus process. Instead the tool was based on Australian healthcare data. Indicators had been selected from ...
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Comparing the Functional Independence Measure and the interRAI/MDS for use in the functional assessment of older adults: a review of the literature
... for older patients' care planning and future quality of life ...in older adults ...available assessment systems is not well understood in this ...with older adults is complicated by frailty, ...
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Making the best of it: an emerging grounded theory of caring for an older person with mental health problems
... in older people with depression (Alexopoulos et al ...in older people, including an increased risk of suicide, and an increased risk from physical illnesses including cardiovascular disease ...
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Residents’ perceptions of their own sadness - a qualitative study in Norwegian nursing homes
... Being specialists in family medicine with broad clinical experience, we share an interest in depression in older people, nursing home medicine and medicalization. The first and second authors are ...
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Subsidy Policy and Elderly Labor
... economically developed countries are suffering from the effects of the aging situation. An aging society with fewer children presents several problems, one of which is the social security system. Social security benefits ...
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