important factors to support daily activities, particularly for such super-aging societies as Japan. These societies face a critical social problem: encouraging the social participation of elderly people, especially those who are living alone or who require nursing care. In this context, robotic services are expected to provide elderly people with necessary care from the viewpoint of both physi...

A stairway falling detection prototype is designed to warn when elderly people fall on the stairs and also accumulatively and unobtrusively study elderly people’s walking patterns. With this prototype, we try to demo a new design strategy, a pervasive way, to facilitate developing proper algorithms and living patterns for elderly people at home. Evaluation of the implicit interactions and poten...

BACKGROUND Many Chinese elderly increasingly face the serious problem of the "empty nest" phenomenon. The elderly living independently, also called empty-nest elderly, refers to elderly people living alone whose children left home. However few studies concerned about the subjective well-being (SWB) of the elderly living independently. METHODS This study employs The Memorial University of Newf...

Background This cross-sectional study examined the association between types of living arrangements, quality of life, and mental health of the Korean elderly. Methods We used secondary data analysis from the data of 4248 elderly people aged 65 yr or older that completed the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2010-2012). Data concerning participants' demographic characteri...

Introduction: Aging priod is Special features and many problems in all dimensions of human life and cause increased supportive needs. During recent years the rapid increase in the senior population, their disabilities, reduced independence, and increased dependence have drawn more attention toward issues related to social support in this group. Social support impacts different dimensions of hea...

objectives: the aim of this study was to survey relationship between religious orientation and happiness in elderly man and woman in tehran. methods and materials: the present study was descriptive and causal- comparative. in order to survey the relationship between religious orientation and happiness among the elderly men and women in tehran 389 aged people above 60 years including 247 men and...