Objectives: Activity of daily living (ADL) stages demonstrated ordered associations with risk of chronic conditions, hospitalization, nursing home use, and mortality among community-living elderly. This article explores the association of stages with psychosocial well-being. We hypothesized that higher ADL stages (greater ADL limitation) are associated with more restricted social networks, less...

OBJECTIVES This study examined the relationship between awareness of disability and occupational performance in a group of elderly persons during the year after stroke. METHOD Data on awareness of disability and occupational performance (i.e., activities of daily living [ADL] motor and process ability) were collected 1, 3, 6, and 12 months after stroke. A mixed-linear-effects model was implem...

INTRODUCTION The Activities of Daily Living Questionnaire (ADL-Q) is an informant report questionnaire assessing functional impairment in daily living skills. Previous research has demonstrated correlations between ADL-Q and cognitive screening measures among patients with dementia. This study examined the relationship between ADL-Q and the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), a brief cognitiv...

Aging leads to significant losses in muscle mass, strength, and the ability to independently perform activities of daily living (ADL). Typically, standard resistance training (RT) has been used to reduce these losses in function by maintaining or even increasing muscle strength in older adults. Increasing strength does not necessarily, however, result in an increase in the ability to perform AD...

The monitoring of the lifestyles may be performed based on a system for the recognition of Activities of Daily Living (ADL) and their environments, combining the results obtained with the user’s agenda. The system may be developed with the use of the off-the-shelf mobile devices commonly used, because they have several types of sensors available, including motion, magnetic, acoustic, and locati...

OBJECTIVES To compare functional outcomes in the year after discharge for older adults discharged from the hospital after an acute medical illness with a new or additional disability in their basic self-care activities of daily living (ADL) (compared with preadmission baseline 2 weeks before admission) with those of older adults discharged with baseline ADL function and identify predictors of f...

The Alexandria Digital Library Project, as part of its Digital Earth Prototype (ADEPT) effort, is developing a distributed digital library for georeferenced information. Key features of the library include a distributed, peer-to-peer architecture; services supporting federation and interoperation of collections and items; personalized “learning spaces” in which collections of pedagogical materi...

This study determined whether the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) and the Frenchay Activities Index (FAI) could be used together as a more comprehensive score to assess the activities of daily living (ADL) in stroke survivors. Subjects were recruited from stroke patients consecutively admitted to the inpatient neurology or rehabilitation department at a university hospital in southern Tai...

BACKGROUND The North Carolina (NC) Area Health Education Center's (AHEC) Digital Library (ADL) is a web portal designed to meet the information needs of health professionals across the state by pulling together a set of resources from numerous different sources and linking a pool of users to only the resources for which they have eligibility. Although the ADL was designed with the primary purpo...

<p>The aim of this cross-sectional study was to determine the relationship between ability carry out activities daily living (ADL) independently and functional ability, mental status, exercise habits, other factors, among elderly people with osteoarthritis (OA) at Pleret Bantul, Indonesia. Measures included Katz Index Independence in ADL, Western Ontario McMaster Universities Osteoarthrit...