What's needed to make 'aging in place' for healthy old age

Relationships between housing and healthy aging in very old age.

PURPOSE The aim of this work is to examine the relationship between aspects of objective and perceived housing and aspects of healthy aging, defined as independence in daily activities and subjective well-being. Furthermore, this research examined the comparability of relationships between housing and healthy aging in the five European countries. DESIGN AND METHODS Data were drawn from the EN...

Rapid Survey of Wasting and Stunting in Children: Whats New, Whats Old and Whats the Buzz?

Nationwide Rapid Survey on Children (RSoC), conducted by the Ministry of Women and Child Development and UNICEF in 2013-14 showed a marked improvement in the status of the child malnutrition over the third National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3) that was conducted in 2005-06. Despite some impressive gains in the anthropometric indicators of malnutrition, the absolute levels remain high, and of c...

The Road to a Healthy Old Age

Voices on relocation and aging in place in very old age--a complex and ambivalent matter.

PURPOSE This cross-national qualitative study explores how very old people reflect upon relocation and aging in place. DESIGN AND METHODS Swedish and German data are utilized in this study. About 80 community-living participants, 80-89 years of age, were interviewed with open-ended questions at home by trained interviewers. The interviews were analyzed by using conventional qualitative conten...

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

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