نتایج جستجو برای: elderly with disabilities

تعداد نتایج: 9238610  

2015
Özge Saraçlı Ayşe Semra Demir Akca Nuray Atasoy Özde Önder Ömer Şenormancı İsmet Kaygisız Levent Atik

OBJECTIVE Older people seek not only a longer life, but also a better quality of life (QOL). Our aim was to find out the relationship between QOL and socio-demographic factors, social activities, cognitive status, depression and anxiety symptoms among medically ill and hospitalized elderly people in Turkey. METHODS Two hundred forty three patients age 65 years or older were examined. The Soci...

Journal: :Revista de saude publica 1998
L R Ramos J Toniolo M S Cendoroglo J T Garcia M S Najas M Perracini C R Paola F C Santos T Bilton S J Ebel M B Macedo C M Almada F Nasri R D Miranda M Gonçalves A L Santos R Fraietta I Vivacqua M L Alves E S Tudisco

INTRODUCTION Previous cross-sectional studies have shown a high prevalence of chronic disease and disability among the elderly. Given Brazil's rapid aging process and the obvious consequences of the growing number of old people with chronic diseases and associated disabilities for the provision of health services, a need was felt for a study that would overcome the limitations of cross-sectiona...

Journal: :Cadernos de saude publica 2004
Adriana Barbieri Feliciano Suzana Alves de Moraes Isabel Cristina Martins de Freitas

This study focuses on the health profile of the elderly population in Sao Carlos, Sao Paulo State, Brazil, in 2003. The study population consisted of a sample over 60 years of age (n = 523) registered with the Family Health Program and the Unified National Health System. Point and interval prevalence of disabilities and chronic non-communicable diseases and cognitive status were estimated (95%C...

1997
Ramanand Satapthy Nilamadhab Kar Indubhusan Das Gopal Chandra Kar Tophan Pati

Psychiatric evaluation and assessment of common physical illnesses and disabilities was carried out in elderly depressives (aged 60 years and above). Correlation, if any, was seen between depression and physical problems. The 'patient group' comprised of 40 drawn from MHI, Cuttack, having a depressive disorder (ICD-10). The 'control group' of 20 was drawn from the general population with no psy...

2014
Alice J. Lin Charles B. Chen

There are more than 11 million elderly Americans living alone. They belong to a latent risk population that will have emergency situations on a frequent basis. Thus, latent risk populations require constant monitoring. There are many current devices that assist the elderly, but they are not real-time, accessible, or particularly effective. We present a design of novel technology for healthy ind...

2017
Carlos Polanco Ignacio Islas Vazquez Adrian Martinez-Rivas Miguel Arias-Estrada Thomas Buhse Juan J. Calva Carlos Aguilar Salinas Claudia Pimentel Hernández Vladimir N. Uversky

There are a growing number of small children—as well as adults—with mental disabilities (including elderly citizens with Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of age-related dementia) that are getting lost in rural and urban areas for various reasons. Establishing their location within the first 72 h is crucial because lost people are exposed to all kinds of adverse conditions and in the case of t...

2016
Haewon Byeon Hyeung Woo Koh

[Purpose] Disabilities after stroke are known to have adverse effects on the quality of life. This study investigated the relationship between Communication Activities of Daily Living (C-ADL) and quality life of elderly stroke patients to provide basic data for use in enhancing the quality of life. [Subjects and Methods] One hundred sixty five elderly over the age of 60, who were diagnosed as h...

ژورنال: Journal of Research and Health 2012
AkbarFahimi, Malahat, Kamali, Mohammad, Habibian, Nasrin ,

    Inclusive education tries to enhance education of students with disabilities among regular students. The attitude of regular students toward peers with disabilities is an important challenge for inclusive education. This study aims at exploring the attitudes of fifth level students at elementary schools toward peers with disabilities. Hence, 300 fifth level students were selected at element...

2017
Kumara Raja

Context: The estimation of treatment need is an important requirement in oral health care planning. Among the many diseases and disabilities that the elderly suffer from, diseases related to the oral cavity occupy an important place. In this regard, loss of teeth in the elderly is a major concern. Objective: To assess the dental prosthetic status and treatment needs among elderly residing in ol...

2002
Harriet Meinander Minna Varheenmaa

The quality of life for disabled and elderly people can in many cases be substantially improved by a better choice of good looking and functional clothing and other textile products. Disabilities often lead to special functional requirements of clothing and other textile products in living environment. Persons with highly sensitive skin have to consider the skin contact or tactile properties an...

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