BACKGROUND The assessment of activities of daily living (ADL) is essential for dementia diagnostics. Even in mild cognitive impairment (MCI), subtle deficits in instrumental ADL (IADL) may occur and signal a higher risk of conversion to dementia. Thus, sensitive and reliable ADL assessment tools are important. Smart homes equipped with sensor technology and video cameras may provide a proxy-fre...

BACKGROUND longitudinal relationship between renal function, disability and mortality has not been evaluated. OBJECTIVE we investigated the temporal association between renal function and disability, and aimed to identify the influence of disability on mortality according to renal function in a cohort of older Koreans. DESIGN/SETTING Korean Longitudinal Study on Health and Aging is a prospe...

OBJECTIVE Elderly inner-city women (n = 125) greater than the age of 60 and living alone and who were consecutively admitted to a large, urban, university-based rehabilitation hospital were followed to (a) examine the power of standardized clinical measures to predict who was living alone 18 months after discharge, (b) determine whether live-alone women at 18 months' follow-up were more indepen...

Frailty is a predictor of disability. A proper understanding of the contribution of individual indicators of frailty in the prediction of disability is a requisite for preventive interventions. The aim of this study was to determine the predictive power of the individual physical frailty indicators: gait speed, physical activity, hand grip strength, Body Mass Index (BMI), fatigue, and balance, ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study is to examine whether physical disability is associated with faster rate of decline in cognitive function. METHODS A longitudinal population-based cohort of 6,678 initially nondisabled older adults from a biracial urban community was interviewed at 3-year intervals from 1993 to 2012. Cognitive function was assessed using a standardized global cognitive sco...

BACKGROUND This study's aim was to clarify the relationship of having hobbies and a purpose in life (PIL; in Japanese, ikigai) with mortality and a decline in the activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental ADL (IADL) among the community-dwelling elderly. METHODS Prospective observational data from residents aged ≥65 years who were at increased risk for death (n = 1853) and developing a...

Mục tiêu của nghiên cứu nhằm đánh giá tình trạng suy giảm chức năng thể chất và mối liên quan với hội chứng dễ bị tổn thương ở bệnh nhân loãng xương cao tuổi. Nghiên mô tả cắt ngang trên 392 người trong thời gian từ tháng 8 năm 2021 đến 2022 tại Bệnh viện Lão khoa Trung ương. Tình được bằng các hoạt động sinh hàng ngày (ADL) có sử dụng cụ (IADL). Kết quả cho thấy tuổi trung bình là 73,15 ± 6,57...

BACKGROUND The health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of the elderly population of Yi ethnic minority, which is the seventh largest nationality in China, has been rarely reported. This study was designed to explore the HRQoL of the elderly Yi ethnicity and association between their HRQOL and functional abilities. METHODS A total of 291 Yi ethnic residents were randomly recruited from 12 rural...