Clinimetric Testing in Mexican Elders: Associations with Age, Gender, and Place of Residence

Clinimetric Testing in Mexican Elders: Associations with Age, Gender, and Place of Residence

AIM To evaluate the ability of five clinimetric instruments to discriminate between subjects >60 years of age living at home versus those living in a residency. METHODS Trained nutritionists applied five instruments (cognition/depression/functionality/nutrition/appetite) to 285 subjects with majorities of women (64%), aged <80 years (61%), and home residents (54%). RESULTS Multivariable reg...

Dental health by age, gender, and residence place in 6- to 12-year-old children living in Shahroud City, Iran

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Analyses of hospitalization of diabetes mellitus patients in Poland by gender, age and place of residence.

AIM The purpose of this study was to analyze the hospitalization of diabetes mellitus patients in Polish hospitals in 2005-2009. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data was taken from a nationwide database, kept at the National Institute of Public Health - National Institute of Hygiene in Warsaw. Data gathered for this work related to patients whose main cause of hospitalization was diabetes. RESULTS In...

Associations of Suicide Seasonality with Rural- Urban Residence and Mental Disorders in Ilam, Iran

Bayesian Activity Recognition in Residence for Elders

The growing population of elders in our society calls for a new approach in caregiving. By inferring what activities elderly are performing in their houses it is possible to determine their physical and cognitive capabilities. In this paper we describe probabilistic models for performing activity recognition from sensor patterns. We introduce a new observation model which takes the history of s...