Abstract Background Brain tumour patients often have neurocognitive deficits which can result in problems with activities daily living that are cognitively complex. Currently, no valid and reliable brain tumour-specific instrument to measure these instrumental of (IADL) is available, but such an being developed. This study aimed validate the EORTC IADL-BN32 questionnaire, comprising five multi-...

The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the characteristics of the Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) ability, evaluated by the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS), and everyday memory functions (the memory necessary for daily life), assessed by the Rivermead Behavioral Memory Test (RBMT) in elderly people with dementia compared with a community-dwelling group. We div...

209 23 Text: 3,684 24 Running title: Dietary habits and age-related decline 25 26 Women 33 34 2 ABSTRACT 35 The objective of this study was to determine the potential long-term impact of dietary habits 36 on age-related decline among 4,809 elderly women (born between 1925 and 1930) in the E3N 37 study, a French longitudinal cohort. In 1993, an extensive diet history self-administered 38 questio...

Self-reports of the ability to engage in instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) among older adults are known to be related to personality traits. However, self-reports are sometimes discrepant with performance-based IADL assessments, and little is known about personality associations with objective functionality or with poor insight about functional deficits. This study examined the NE...

BACKGROUND The impact of postoperative delirium on post-discharge functional status of older patients remains unclear, and little is known regarding the interrelationship between cognitive impairment and post-operative delirium. Therefore, the main purpose was to evaluate the post-discharge functional status of patients who experience delirium after undergoing orthopaedic surgery and the interr...

Aims: Although evidence has accumulated that white matter hyperintensity (WMH) is associated with the deterioration of cognitive function and impairment of activities of daily living (ADL), the clinical relevance of WMH in elderly patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) is not still clear. The aim of this study was to examine whether WMH volume is associated with ADL and cognitive function and whe...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between hemoglobin concentration and disability and mobility difficulty among older adults living in São Paulo, Brazil. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Population-based study conducted in São Paulo, Brazil. PARTICIPANTS Adults age 60 and over (n=1,256) from the third data collection wave of the SABE Study (Health, Well-being, and Aging) conducted...

BACKGROUND The adequate information about the functional capacity of elderly populations is a key for the comprehensive assessment of their health status and autonomy. The Lawton IADL (instrumental activities of daily living) Scale is a very often used scale to assess independent living skills, but has never been validated for its use in Spanish-speaking populations. The purpose of this study w...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether subjective poor sleep prospectively increases functional limitations and incident disability in a national sample of adults living in the United States. DESIGN Prospective cohort. SETTING Longitudinal Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS). PARTICIPANTS Young, middle-aged, and older men and women (aged 24-75) surveyed in 1995/96 (MIDUS 1...

INTRODUCTION Falls in elderly women producing fractures are a public health problem that could be largely preventable. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of visual impairment on functional status, falls and fractures in women. MATERIAL AND METHODS We examined 623 women aged ≥ 55 years in order to assess the association between visual status and functional status and the risk of...