INTRODUCTION The needs of elderly people living in the countryside constitute serious health, social, financial and organizational problems. AIM OF THE STUDY To define the needs of elderly people living in the countryside regarding complex living actions. DATA COLLECTED AND METHODOLOGY: The study was carried out among 89 village citizens from the Podkarpackie Voivodeship (N=55; 61.8% women; N...

OBJECTIVE Elderly women who live alone are at increased risk for loss of independence. Hospitalization, in particular, often marks the transition from independent living to institutional care. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of rehabilitation admission to the subsequent function of elderly women and their ability to return to live-alone status. METHOD The women in th...

OBJECTIVES To examine the association of living arrangements with functional disability among older persons and explore the mediation of impact factors on the relationship. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis using data from Healthy Aging study in Zhejiang Province. PARTICIPANTS Analyzed sample was drawn from a representative rural population of older persons in Wuyi County, Zhejiang Province, ...

BACKGROUND Both multimorbidity and activities of daily living (ADL) disability and instrument activities of daily living (IADL) disability are common among elderly individuals. ADL/IADL disability may reduce individuals' capacities for independent living and quality of life. This study aimed to examine the association between multimorbidity and ADL/IADL disability. METHODS A multi-stage clust...

Background: The basic and instrumental activities of daily living are prerequisites for living with a good quality of life. On the contrary, lack of movement and physical inactivity are considered as the main cause of pressure injuries. Accordingly, this study aimed to determine the relationship between the basic and instrumental activities of daily living with the risk of pressure ulcers in pa...

BACKGROUND physical functioning describes the underlying abilities that make activities necessary for independent living in the community possible. OBJECTIVE to test self-reported and objective measures of physical functioning in predicting subsequent disability in cooking, shopping and housework. DESIGN we used data from the first and second waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retire...

BACKGROUND To compare the outcomes of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessments by family physicians and geriatricians. METHODS An explorative observational study was conducted in six family practices (12 ambulatory family practitioners) and 1 geriatric department (4 hospital-based geriatricians) from a university medical center in Nijmegen (the Netherlands). As participants, we included 587 patien...

BACKGROUND There is limited insight into the attributable effect of anemia and comorbidity on functional status and mortality in old age. METHODS The Leiden 85-plus Study is a population-based prospective follow-up study of 562 people aged 85 years. Anemia was defined according to World Health Organization criteria. We measured 3 parameters of functional status at baseline and annually therea...

OBJECTIVES To examine different clinically relevant eligibility criteria sets to determine how they differ in numbers and characteristics of individuals served. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis of the 2000 wave of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), a nationally representative longitudinal health interview survey of adults aged 50 and older. SETTING Population-based cohort of community-dw...

BACKGROUND Our objective was to analyse the influence of education on the link between functional limitation (FL) and self-rated health (SRH) in two countries, France and the USA. METHODS The data of the North American NHANES study (n = 9254) and the French National Health Survey (n = 25 559) were used. FL was measured by the ADL and IADL scales. We constructed a logistic regression model wit...