BACKGROUND The relationship between childhood residential mobility and health in the UK is not well established; however, research elsewhere suggests that frequent childhood moves may be associated with poorer health outcomes and behaviours. The aim of this paper was to compare people in the West of Scotland who were residentially stable in childhood with those who had moved in terms of a range...

Social inequalities in health and disability are often attributed to differences in childhood adversity, access to care, health behavior, residential environments, stress, and the psychosocial aspects of work environments. Yet, disadvantaged people are also more likely to hold jobs requiring heavy physical labor, repetitive movement, ergonomic strain, and safety hazards. We investigate the role...

The specific heat capacity (Cp) of amorphous sucrose was determined by DSC after annealing at a particular temperature within the glass transition (Tg) region. The enthalpy recovery after physical aging was obtained from the Cp data through the Tg region after several aging times. This data was fitted to the empirical Williams-Watts equation to obtain values for the mean molecular relaxation ti...

BACKGROUND in the primary prevention of disability among older adults it might be useful to identify individuals at high risk for functional decline before it occurs. OBJECTIVE to examine whether tiredness in daily activities is an independent determinant of onset of mobility disability at 1 1/2-year follow-up among non-disabled older men and women. DESIGN a prospective study with 1 1/2-yea...

In emerging economies, the socio-economic status is a key element to evaluate social improvement as it provides an understanding of the population’s access to housing, education, health or basic services like water and electricity. The relationship between such indicators and human physical mobility has been researched mostly in areas like access to medical infrastructures and public transporta...

BACKGROUND Independent mobility is a key factor in determining readiness for discharge for older patients following acute hospitalisation and has also been identified as a predictor of many important outcomes for this patient group. This review aimed to identify a physical performance instrument that is not disease specific that has the properties required to accurately measure and monitor the ...

PURPOSE The primary purpose of this study was to compare the effects of two different exercise training programs on executive cognitive functions and functional mobility in older adults. A secondary purpose was to explore the potential mediators of training effects on executive function and functional mobility with particular reference to physical fitness gains. METHODS A sample of 42 healthy...

Movement, or mobility, is key to the accessibility, design, and usability of many websites. While some peripheral mobility issues have been addressed few have centered on the mobility problems of visually impaired users. We use our past work to address these issues and derive mobility heuristics from mobility models, use these heuristics to place mobility objects within a web page, and describe...

BACKGROUND Physical activity in midlife has been related to lower mortality and better health in old age. The present study evaluated whether physical activity at age of 20-64 years was associated with mobility and muscle strength in old age. METHODS A random sample of 1,000 persons was extracted from all the ≥75-year-old people living in Kuopio, Finland, and 679 community-dwelling participan...