UNLABELLED Background Appropriate information about the functional capacity of patients with dementia disease plays an important role in assessment of their health status and functional independence. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the reliability and validity of the Lawton IADL Persian version in patients with dementia. METHOD International Quality Of Life Assessment (IQOL...

BACKGROUND This cross-sectional study investigated the associations between balance confidence, functional balance, and physical disability among older people after hip fracture. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study utilizes baseline data of two randomized controlled trials (ISRCTN34271567 and ISRCTN53680197). The participants were 159 community-dwelling over 60-year-old people. Health, fracture st...

Objective. This study evaluated variation in functional independence in activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) among individuals with poststroke fatigue (PSF) and poststroke depression (PSD). Methods. A cross-sectional survey involved 65 consenting poststroke survivors who were purposively recruited from physiotherapy clinics of the University Colleg...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to examine the association between nutritional status and the incidence of disability regarding instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) among older adults. DESIGN The study is part of the longitudinal SABE (Saúde, Bem-Estar e Envelhecimento; Health, Wellbeing and Ageing) Study that began in 2000 (first wave) with a multistage, clustered, proba...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the predictive relationship of categorization and deductive reasoning abilities to performance of instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) among adults with brain injury. METHOD A correlational research design was used to examine the performance of 19 patients from a neurosurgery acute care unit on Toglia's Category Assessment (TCA), th...

Abstract Background Poor self-care is associated with higher risk in heart failure (HF). Self-care may influence patient-reported outcomes (PROMs) such as health-realted quality of life (QoL). Functional and instrumental autonomy are determinants QoL. Literature has shown and/or functional dependency worse Purpose Describe the effect on QoL across to different levels explore potencial interacti...

This study aimed to examine the influence of changes in exercise status, nutritional and a number comorbidities on functional ability Taiwanese community-dwelling older adults. Data were obtained from Taiwan Longitudinal Study Aging. The results revealed that current consistent negatively associated with subsequent 4- 8-year activities daily living (ADL) instrumental ADL (IADL) decline (all p &...

To establish a diagnosis of dementia, it is necessary, in addition to cognitive impairment, prove the existence disorder instrumental activities daily living (IADL). The Amsterdam IADL Questionnaire reliable instrument translated into different languages. This study aims assess diagnostic accuracy Serbian version Questionnaire. included 75 patients with mild impairment (MCI) and dementia due Al...

This article presents descriptive statistics from the 1982 Long-Term Care Survey on noninstitutionalized elderly Americans with limitations in activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL). The focus of this article is on private expenses for home-based care related to ADL and IADL limitations. We describe the amounts of out-of-pocket payments expended rela...