BACKGROUND Later transitions to adult roles and responsibilities have been linked with better psychological well-being yet psychological distress has risen despite young people making the transition to adulthood at older ages over recent years. METHOD We examine the role of structural constraints and adolescent resources in the relationship between the timing of transitions and psychological ...

The Confidence project is designed to support independent living of the elderly. The main goal of the project is reconstructing the user’s posture to detect falls in real time and to detect other abnormalities in behavior. This paper presents a survey of methods for fall detection and activity recognition and discusses how suitable they are for the Confidence project. The presented methods use ...

Evaluation and removal of home hazards is an invaluable method for preventing in-home falls and preserving independent living. Current processes for conducting home hazard assessments are impractical from a whole population standpoint given the substantial resources required for implementation. Digital photography offers an opportunity to remotely evaluate an environment for falling hazards. Ho...

Sleep quality is related to emotional, physical, psychological and cognitive functioning and functional independence in later life. After acute health events, older adults are likely to utilize postacute rehabilitation services to improve functioning and facilitate return to independent living. Patterns of how sleep changes with postacute rehabilitation, and predictors of such patterns, are unk...

Spatial memory is of interest in schizophrenia because of widespread impairments in adaptive functioning, including independent living skills. Short-term spatial memory is impaired in this disease, whereas spatial reference memory, a longer-term spatial memory, has not been evaluated. Animal studies have demonstrated that anticholinergics impair short-term spatial memory but not spatial referen...

Unpaid caring is defined as any help or support provided to family members, friends, neighbours, or others because of their long-term physical or mental health or disability, or problems related to old age. It is estimated that there are over 5.2 million unpaid carers in England and Wales (2001 Census). Using the Small Area Microdata from the 2001 Census Samples of Anonymised Records, we examin...

The elderly population is the most heterogeneous group. In advanced years a lot of people are still fit enough for quality, creative and independent living. As there are differences in the ability of elderly people there are differences in their needs. On the other hand, it is not negligible proportion of those who are partially or totally dependent on help, by meeting the same needs. This pape...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether early intervention with recombinant human growth hormone (hGH) after hip fracture improves functional recovery and long-term outcome. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Functional recovery after hip fracture is often incomplete. The catabolic situation that develops after the hip fracture accident, and a state of malnutrition either pre-existing or developing after surgery,...

Older youth preparing to emancipate from the foster care system are often served in residential treatment settings where they have limited opportunities to practice skills for independent living in a community setting. Stepping these youth down to less restrictive environments such as treatment foster care is a growing trend, especially for youth with mental health issues. Yet, few studies have...

BACKGROUND There is a debate about the influence of executive functioning impairment in the functionality of Bipolar Disorder Type I, even when euthymic (EutBDI). The aim of this study was to explore this relationship, taking functional outcome from a multidimensional point of view. METHODS An extended neuropsychological battery of executive tests and measures of social functioning were admin...