[PDF] Top 20 Assessment of Physical Disability and Nutritional Status among elderly in a Rural Population in South India

... our elderly should lose out on their rights. Over the last two decades India reaped huge benefits from globalization, industrialization and rapid economic ...from rural areas to the urban ...the ... See full document

... Anthropometric measurements are indirect techniques for assessing body composition. Anthropometric measures are non-invasive techniques that provide information or estimation of body composition, fat, and muscle stores. ... See full document

... disease, disability, and the lower experience of ...of physical activity and fatigue in elderly residents of rest homes in ...chosen. Physical activity was measured by the Physical ... See full document

... that Rural elderly were more malnourished ...Rajasthan, Nutritional status of urban elderly population was comparable with that of developed countries while that of rural ... See full document

... Every disability has a different type of medical, social and rehabilitative need to be addressed and it is important that the measurement of disability is ...term disability to be insulting and may ... See full document

... in elderly people, including renal ...with disability, frailty and low physical activity and capacity ...of elderly patients with ESRD [9], nutritional and physical func- tioning ... See full document

... SWB among the elderly ...environmental, physical, and social risk factors (the biop- sychosocial model) are expected to vary substantially between developed and developing ...depression among ... See full document

... iodine status, and helminths and intestinal protozoa, the sam- pling approach adhered to a rapid appraisal methodology proposed by the WHO to identify high risk groups for school-based deworming: 5–10 schools are ... See full document

... of physical activity. In the present studied population, Nutritional awareness of women was tested and questions included in knowledge test paper were based on the assumption that all adult women ... See full document

... conflict during decision-making process of child feeding. The researchers divided the mothers in low and high autonomy groups and found the children to have low nutritional status in the household where the ... See full document

... Nutritional status is one of the indicators of the quality mental and physical for ...children. Assessment of physical growth is one of the important tools for assessing nutrition ... See full document

... food-based guidelines for young adults are used for the elderly persons. The diet should be varied and rich in complex carbohydrates and this should include whole- grain cereals, vegetables and fruits which should ... See full document

... Mini-Nutritional Assessment, compared to those without DM (25). Elderly people who have trouble when perform- ing daily activities because of visual acuity loss can have trouble cooking, grocery ... See full document

... In India, we face a double jeopardy of malnutrition i.e., children from urban areas are affected with problems of over - nutrition while those from rural area suffer from effects of under - nutrition. The ... See full document

... of India, having just 10% area earmarked as ...socio-economic status) from the students own families which are of higher socio-economic ...stages. Among the study sub- jects, those who fallen under ... See full document

... and Pharm.D. qualification, this shows that In India the concept of community pharmacy is not well established and person having M.pharma qualification were not interested become as community pharmacist because ... See full document

... This indicator is directly proportional to body cell mass (BCM), and its higher value corresponds to better cell function. This parameter is most diagnostically relevant at a frequency of 50 kHz. Although the biological ... See full document

... Moreover, our findings showed that about 2.9% workers with back pain were hospitalized for 270 days or 5 days per worker absenteeism occurred per year, while 11.2% seek health care treatment and 15% of them thought to ... See full document

... relies on the respondent’s memory, the food frequency questionnaire was implemented to reduce the errors that might have arisen from the first questionnaire (24). The recall method for assessing food consumption was ... See full document

... between nutritional status and marital status showed that malnutrition or being at risk of malnutrition was more prevalent in single elderly; and consequently the percentage of normal ... See full document