Older Persons
Anaemia in older persons.
... many older subjects with subnormal vitamin B12 concentrations receive hydroxocobalamin ...whether older individuals with anaemia and subnormal vitamin B12 levels should be treated with ...in older ...
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AGEISM, MYTHS AND RIGHTS OF OLDER PERSONS IN A CHANGING WORLD
... an older employee who keeps being offered a retirement package in which they have no interest may have cause age ...competent older worker start getting poor grades for no justifiable reason, it may be part ...
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Pneumococcal vaccination in older persons: where are we today?
... An Australian review of IPD trends in non-indigenous elderly people showed an ongoing substantial decrease in IPD due to serotypes found in the 7 V conjugated vac- cine since its introduction in 2004. A similar trend was ...
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Legal Protection of the Rights of Older Persons against Ageism
... Being old or elderly has been related wtih physical incapacity, with loss of mental capacity, weakness, dependency, isolation, loss of social and economic status and a long list of etceteras which constitute stereotypes ...
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Caring for Older Persons in a Technologically Advanced Nursing Future
... support older persons’ healthcare are mobile ...for older persons (Table 1) and further optimization, innovation, and rigorous research around the poten- tial of mobile device applications ...
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Walking with rollator: a systematic review of gait parameters in older persons
... Due to the aging society there is an increasing need for appropriate technical devices for less dependent living [1]. Walking aids, especially the so-called rollators, are frequently prescribed for older ...
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Standard set of health outcome measures for older persons
... The suggested initial outcomes were chosen based on congruency across findings from the registries, surveys, literature searches and engagement with older people. A minority were chosen based on the consensus ...
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Engagement of older persons in cultural activities: importance and barriers
... Gender makes a difference, as women are more likely to visit museums or galleries: 13.3% of women aged 65 years and over involved more than five times during the year before the survey in such activities. On the other ...
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GUIDE 71 Guidelines for standards developers to address the needs of older persons and persons with disabilities
... 4.7 In product design there is potential for conflict between safety and usability. For example child-resistant closures used on medicines to prevent access to children may also make closures more difficult to open for ...
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Healthcare for older persons with chronic conditions is very
... In 2006, we launched a cRCT of GC in 8 community-based prima- ry care practices located in urban and suburban neighborhoods in the Baltimore, MD–Washington, DC, metropolitan area. Three practices were operated by Kaiser ...
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older persons in emergencies: an active ageing perspective
... for older persons caring for children. For older rural residents affected by the fire storm in British Columbia, it was a challenge to ob- tain largely electronic information sources and application ...
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Flu vaccination among older persons: study of knowledge and practices
... Moreover, we tested the interaction between the pres- ence of chronic diseases indicative of flu immunization and demographic and clinical characteristics of study participants. To determine factors associated with flu ...
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Prediction of Hip and Hand Fractures in older persons with or without a diagnosis of Periodontitis
... In older persons with osteoporosis the bone mineral density is reduced, and the bone architecture is ...in older persons, and more prevalent among older persons in Scandinavia ...
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The Effect of a Reminiscence Program in Institutionalized Older Persons with Dementia: A Pilot Study
... Objectives: The purpose of this pilot study was to analyze the impact of a reminiscence program, particularly in the dimensions of cognition, autobiographical memory, mood and behavior in older persons with ...
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Development, feasibility and performance of a health risk appraisal questionnaire for older persons
... Data presented in this paper are from a randomised con- trolled study, the PRO-AGE study (London, U.K.; Ham- burg, Germany; and Solothurn, Switzerland). In this study, non-disabled community-dwelling older ...
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SOCIAL EXCLUSION AND HOUSE HOLD POVERTY AMONG THE OLDER PERSONS IN NIGERIA
... aged persons are weak and are classified as dependants but this does not mean they should be excluded from certain societal ...the older persons. The majority of older people who cannot earn ...
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Determinants of health and well being among older persons in the Philippines
... affects older people’s health by diminishing their capacity to access health ...of older Filipinos who felt ill and thought about seeing a doctor but did not in the past year cited financial difficulty as ...
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Psychosocial and Sociodemographic Predictors of Depression among Older Persons in Jordan
... for persons aged 60 years or over was ...the older population increased up to 2.6% [1]. The world’s older population, those at age of 60 or above, in 2010 was about 760 million and expected to reach ...
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Association of cognition with temporal discounting in community based older persons
... among older per- sons. Some studies suggest that older persons may dis- count less steeply than younger persons, although findings are mixed [14-19], but we are not aware of studies that have ...
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Screening for vitamin B 12 and folate deficiency in older persons
... Previously, screening for vitamin B-12 deficiency was indicated only for the evaluation of those with relevant symptoms and signs, such as anemia, neuropathy, or cognitive impairment. However, in view of the high ...
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