[PDF] Top 20 Physical activity, number of medical conditions, and falls in community-dwelling older adults

... history, number of medical conditions, and physical ...falling, number of medical conditions, total physical activity, household physical ... See full document

... The main limitation of this study is the lack of a follow-up. This prevents us from studying the effect of this intervention on actual rates of falling. In addition, subjects with certain medical ... See full document

... of falls prevention exercises sufficiently to reduce falls risk and to prevent re-referral to services, over the coming decade it is estimated that population changes will result in service demand beyond ... See full document

... in older adults ...a number of other psycho- social outcomes, which limits the ability to fully exam- ine these interventions’ effectiveness for reducing loneliness [15, ... See full document

... the community-dwelling elderly with no ME did not participate in this ...and conditions compared to non-cooperators ...from community-dwelling elderly aged 65–70 ...or older, and ... See full document

... of community-dwell- ing seniors. The median number of days participants reported having restricted activity due to poor mental or physical health was 0; 71% reported 0 ...restricted ... See full document

... a number of RCTs to reduce falls in the home, to is to have an occupational therapist (OT) conduct an in-home safety assessment (Stevens ...prevent falls and subsequent ...reduce falls in- ... See full document

... 140 community-dwelling older adults (46 men and 94 women) aged 60–82 years (mean: ...failure; medical conditions such as malignancy and musculoskeletal disorders; and ... See full document

... daily activity, along with perceived behavioural control, age and number of people the participant could turn ...daily activity counts increased by approximately ...daily activity counts ... See full document

... small number of original studies, which led to meta-analyses only for case manage- ment and information provision and reduced the re- liability of the ...frail older adults, making study comparison ... See full document

... assess physical activity ...total physical activity at a population level, the questionnaire was originally designed to assess physical activity levels in adults aged ... See full document

... light activity were approximately normally ...between falls and each of four different PA outcome measures (daily steps, minutes of sedentary, light and MVPA), accounting for clustering with PA out- come ... See full document

... between physical activity and QOL, as well as an expanded QOL model including both health status indicators and global ...important. Physical activity has been consistently linked to disease ... See full document

... determined. Falls history was recorded at a two year follow up ...of falls and an under- estimation of the effects presented ...on physical frailty, as defined by the frailty pheno- ...and ... See full document

... surveying community- dwelling rural and urban elders’ personal characteristics and a variety of issues including retirement and employ- ment after retirement, social welfare and security, hous- ing, ... See full document

... in older adults and therefore reduces the economic burden caused by aging- specific health ...for community dwelling older ...on older populations who are living in residential ... See full document

... Therefore the aims of this study are to investigate the effectiveness of HT in improving the mental, cognitive and physical health of the community-dwelling older adults using a RCT ... See full document

... broader falls prevention research in this population is ...novel falls prevention activity programme that aimed to increase the participants ’ falls prevention knowledge, improve their balance ... See full document

... or older (United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, ...is physical activity (PA) (Chodzko-Zajko, Proctor, Singh, Salem, & Skinner, 2009; Södergren, 2013; Vogel et ...in ... See full document

... with falls was hindered by the cross-sectional data collection and retrospective recall of falls both at base- line and ...with physical and mental frailty who are at increased risk of falls, ... See full document