Introduction This article presents an analysis of the Self-Care Capacity elderly people living at home, identifying variables that interfere with it. Aging is a stage life in which health needs undergo continuous changes resulting from disease situations and aging process, therefore, implementation adequate effective support for ability to take care oneself will contribute promotion well-being....

Ambient Supported Living systems for people with physical, sensory or cognitive restrictions have to guarantee that the environment is safe, fault tolerant and universally accessible. In addition it is necessary to overcome technological challenges, common to ubiquitous computing, such as the design of a middleware layer that ensures the interoperability of multiple wired and wireless networks ...

OBJECTIVES To provide estimates of the numbers of cognitively impaired and physically disabled elderly people in England and Wales, subdivided by a range of sociodemographic, dependency, care receipt, and survival variables, to support debates on the form and funding of health and welfare programmes. DESIGN Interviews at baseline and 2 year follow up plus data on resource use extracted from r...

Background—Despite the fact that visual function has an important role in the quality of life in later years, very few studies have measured visual acuity in population based nationwide samples of British elderly people. Such measurements were carried out in the context of the national diet and nutrition survey of people aged 65 years or over (NDNS). Methods—NDNS participants, who were living i...