Despite moves to enhance the autonomy of clients of health care services, the use of a variety of physical restraints on the freedom of movement of frail, elderly patients continues in nursing homes. This paper confronts the use of restraints on two grounds. First, it challenges the assumption that use of restraints is necessary to protect the welfare of frail, elderly patients by drawing on a ...

BACKGROUND An inverse relationship between obesity and suicide has been observed in younger adults, but this has not been examined in the elderly. METHODS A cross-national ecological study examined the independent relationship between the prevalence of obesity and elderly suicide rates, by controlling for potentially confounding variables, using data from the World Health Organization and the...

The term "elderly" in the cardiac surgical experience refers to patients chronologically aged 2:70 years. Chronologic age is less important than physiologic age; in the physiologically aged patient, techniques used in most surgical procedures are likely to be attended by a markedly increased risk of morbidity and mortality (I). There are four aspects involved in a decision to perform a cardiac ...

Seasonal influenza vaccines elicit antibody responses that can prevent infection, but their efficacy is reduced in the elderly. While a subset of elderly individuals can still mount sufficient vaccine-induced antibody responses, little is known about the properties of the vaccine-induced antibody repertoires in elderly as compared to young responders. To gain insights into the effects of aging ...

BACKGROUND Two recent studies reported a curvilinear (U-shaped) between elderly suicide rates and educational attainment measured by the United Nation's Education Index. A study examining the curvilinear (U-shaped) relationship between elderly suicide rates and the individual components of the Education Index (adult literacy rate, percentage of children of relevant age group enrolled in primary...

Objective: To examine the impact of sleep deprivation and coping abilities on psychological adjustment caregivers elderly.
 Study Design: Cross sectional analytical study.
 Place Duration: Department Psychology, University Gujrat, Gujrat Pakistan, from Jan to Jul 2018.
 Methodology: The elderly were recruited in study with caregiving experience 6 months 2 years. respondents any p...