Research suggests that one of the best ways to reduce the heavy burden of falls among older people is to increase the participation of older people in appropriate exercise and activities to improve their strength, balance, flexibility and mobility. One of the greatest challenges facing health workers in rural and regional NSW is to find ways to increase the access of older people to these activ...

BACKGROUND Participation in sport has many health benefits, and is popular amongst children. However participation decreases with age. While the membership records of peak sports organisations have improved markedly in recent years, there has been little research into sport participation trends across the lifespan. This study investigates age profiles of participation in sport and compares thes...

Abstract Date Presented 04/21/2023 Supports are needed to address the preparedness and mutuality of patients with mechanical circulatory support their caregivers. OT interventions can promote daily participation as well physical mental health for dyads. Primary Author Speaker: Ricardo Daniel Ramirez Additional Authors Speakers: Susan Magasi Contributing Authors: Kathleen L. Grady

In our daily lives we assist to an exponential growth of mobile and fixed devices that surround us, though many of them having limited resources, and not even providing an interface screen. In this paper, we present remoteU¡, a middleware that allows the interaction of those devices with users, resorting to simple but expressive programming mechanisms, and providing efficient implementation and...

INTRODUCTION Indigenous elders have traditionally played an important role in maintaining social cohesion within their communities. Today, part of this role has been taken over by government social and healthcare services, but they are having limited success in addressing social challenges. Increasing elders' social participation and intergenerational solidarity might foster community developme...

local community participation in development programs has a long history and wide range of development agencies have tried to involve people in development plans should. in this context, the main purpose of this study was to assess feasibility of participatory management of urban parks, in city of karaj. the study applied a descriptive-survey method of research. the statistical population inclu...