objectives: this study aimed to identify elderly fallers and non-fallers by balance test under dual tasks conditions. methods & materials: this study was an analyze-comparative study. subjects were from three park of tehran. subjects were 20 older adults with outhistory of falls (aged 75.95±6.28 years) and 21 older adults with a history of 2 or more falls in the previous one year (aged 72.50±7....

elderly, due to immunosuppression caused by predisposing factors such as age, drugs, underlying diseases or malnutrition, is a risk factor for pulmonary tuberculosis (ptb).aged patients with ptb because of difficulty in diagnosis remain undiagnosed and acts as a source of infection in occupational space of health service units. general physicians (gp) as health care workers (hcw) are concerned ...

parks and urban green spaces have always been places to spend hours away from the bustling life and its numerous problems. in the meantime, elderly people also have the same share from such spaces as other people. elderly, including old social groups with old age and decreasingly activities, have very leisure time and the possibility of using the urban park for voluntary and community activitie...

background : sleep is an essential need in every individual’s life. a disorder in the natural sleep can cause physical and mental problems. the elderly are usually faced with more sleep problems. therefore, the present study aimed to define sleep behavior among the elderly hospitalized in zahedan. methods : this is a descriptive analytical study conducted on 300 elderly people aged 60 years and...

the aim of this study was to examine whether formal and informal social activities are associated with a lower risk of depression. besides, we investigated which type of social activities may protect against late-life depression by gender using data from a population-based study of older korean adults.data for analysis were drawn from the 2010 korean longitudinal study of aging. study sample in...

this is a cross-sectional study aiming at analyzing the relation between falling and domestic environmental -risk factors in community-dwelling elderly.the study consisted of 243 randomly chosen community-dwelling elderly over 65 years of age living around a health care center in central selcuklu, konya. data were collected with a questionnaire form including socio-demographic and other charact...

fluoxetine, a widely used antidepressant, can affect the serum sodium level. the aim of this study was to evaluate and compare changes in the serum sodium level of depressive patients taking fluoxetine according to age.this quasi-experimental study was conducted on 126 patients with depression, dividing the patients into two age groups of 15 to 35 years, and above 55 years, who referred to psyc...

objectives: the aim of present study was to investigate the effect of cognitive rehabilitation, a new and non-pharmacological approach to reduce memory and other cognitive deficits in alzheimer's disease. methods & materials: this study was a quasi-experimental research, in singlesubject study-with control group- and based on an a-b design. that was conducted in two groups of control and e...

objectives: the current study was performed to investigate the relationship between mental impairment and each component of activity of daily living (adl) in elderly residents of the kahrizak charity foundation. methods & materials: standardized iranian mini mental examination and barthel index were used to assest cognitive status and adl in 184 elderly residents of kahrizak, respectively. resu...