Person-centered Planning for Pre-frail or Frail Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Characteristics of the least frail adults with intellectual disabilities: a positive biology perspective.

The current study focuses on the characteristics of older people with intellectual disabilities with the lowest frailty levels. Frailty is an increased risk of adverse health outcomes and dependency. Older adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) show more signs of early frailty than the general population. Knowledge of the least frail group characteristics may provide insight into possibilit...

Physical Activity in Non-Frail and Frail Older Adults

INTRODUCTION Physical activity (PA) is important for healthy ageing. Better insight into objectively measured PA levels in older adults is needed, since most previous studies employed self-report measures for PA assessment, which are associated with overestimation of PA. AIM This study aimed to provide insight in objectively measured indoor and outdoor PA of older adults, and in PA difference...

frail elderly adults: concerns and recommendations

Analgesic Use and Pain in Robust, Pre-Frail and Frail Older Outpatients with Cancer

BACKGROUND Pain management can be challenging in frail older people with cancer due to drug-drug interactions and heightened susceptibility to adverse drug events. OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between analgesic use and pain by frailty status in older outpatients with cancer. METHODS A total of 385 consecutive patients aged 70 years and over who presented to an outpatient oncolo...

College: an option for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities.

Visualize cars loaded down with the trappings for a college dorm, the student seeing their college housing complexes, parents carrying all those boxes in, and the newly minted freshmen surveying the landscape nervously but with happy anticipation. A student sees possibilities at every turn, but the parent is conflicted about the “launch.” Sons and daughters convince moms and dads that it is tim...