PURPOSE The Minimum Data Set (MDS) Activities of Daily Living (ADL) bed-mobility item, which rates the staff-assistance level necessary for bed movement, is used to target scheduled repositioning interventions and to identify physical function changes in nursing home residents; however, accuracy of the item is uncertain. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of the MDS ADL bed-...

Opportunistic networks are pervasive networks built exclusively by users’ devices. With respect to legacy multi-hop ad hoc networks (MANETs), opportunistic networks are much more resilient to disconnections, long network partitions, and dynamic reconfigurations. Therefore, they are suitable for challenged scenarios, such as disaster areas, or rural environments. While in MANET nodes’ mobility i...

OBJECTIVE Low physical activity and high sedentary behavior levels are major concerns in persons with multiple sclerosis (MS) and these differ depending on the level of mobility disability. However, the manner in which daily activity is accumulated is currently unknown in this population. METHODS A secondary analysis was performed on a combined data set of persons with MS from two previous in...

background: regular physical activity is ranked as a leading health indicator. despite the extensive benefits of physical activity, elder people are much less active than desired. using theory of planned behavior (tpb) and the self-efficacy construct, this study examined the prediction of physical activity intention and behavior in a sample of elderly male resident of a nursing home. methods: i...

OBJECTIVE Immobilization and subsequent weakness are consequences of critical illness. Despite the theoretical advantages of physical therapy to address this problem, it has not been shown that physical therapy initiated in the intensive care unit offers benefit. DESIGN AND SETTING Prospective cohort study in a university medical intensive care unit that assessed whether a mobility protocol i...

Multidimensional codesign is a recently proposed paradigm for integrating different system dimensions in sensor networks. Examples of such dimensions are logical and physical mobility, continuous and discrete transitions, deterministic and random evolutions and features resulting from their interaction, like deterministic and stochastic hybrid behaviours. In this paper, we propose a unifying co...

The project PASSAge (Personalized Mobility, Assistance and Service Systems in an Aging Society), funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung) aims at the implementation of seamless mobility chains that smoothly connect private and public spaces with a special regard to the needs of an aging society. By extending existing mea...

PURPOSE Physical exercise and cognitive training have been shown to enhance cognition among older adults. However, few studies have looked at the potential synergetic effects of combining physical and cognitive training in a single study. Prior trials on combined training have led to interesting yet equivocal results. The aim of this study was to examine the effects of combined physical and cog...

OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study were to develop a scale for measuring the highest level of mobility in adult ICU patients and to assess its feasibility and inter-rater reliability. BACKGROUND Growing evidence supports the feasibility, safety and efficacy of early mobilization in the intensive care unit (ICU). However, there are no adequately validated tools to quickly, easily, and rel...

Hip fractures in older persons are associated with both low levels of daily physical activity and loss of outdoor mobility. The aim was to investigate if accelerometer-based measures of physical behaviour can be used to determine if people undertake outdoor walking and to provide reference values for physical behaviour outcomes related to outdoor mobility. Older persons (n = 245), ≥70 years, on...