[PDF] Top 20 Changes to the feet of institutionalized elderly persons

... Objective: The present study aimed to identify the most frequent changes to the feet of institutionalized elderly ...with elderly ... See full document

... prevalence of smoking was 9%, of whom 58.3% had smoked for around 31 to 50 years, and the prevalence of ex-smokers was ...32%. The Fargeström Test was applied to ... See full document

... conceptualization of successful ageing is not new (e.g. Havighurst, 1963), but only in the last decades of the twentieth century has become a guiding theme in gerontological ...as the ... See full document

... Objective: To investigate the association between low back pain and functional capacity among non-institutionalized elderly ...study of non-institutionalized elderly ... See full document

... According to caregivers, totally edentulous elderly persons who do not use dentures are fed with paste-based ...leads to changes in eating habits and food preparation by the ... See full document

... Objective: The present study aims to evaluate the prevalence of and factors associated with the use of tobacco and alcohol among elderly people living in the ... See full document

... 73.3% of the elderly persons reported having experi- enced one or more falls in the last ...year. The number of falls experienced by the elderly is important ... See full document

... definition of alcohol and drug ‘abuse’ or ‘dependence’ focuses on social and inter-personal consequences of drug abuse, such as current legal, social or inter-personal problems, and the failure in ... See full document

... Purpose: To identify the factors associated to suggestive signs of oropharyngeal dysphagia (OD) in institutionalized elderly ...30 institutionalized elderly women ... See full document

... tend to take on a typical gait pattern for their ...aimed to analyze the gait pattern of institutionalized and non-institutionalized aged people, and its influence on ...100 ... See full document

... order to evaluate if the participants were suficiently cognitive to participate in the research, the Mini Mental State Exam (MMSE)17 was applied to the 153 elderly ... See full document

... and the occurrence of falls. It is likely that the reduced sample in this study was not able to reflect the situation of immobility and physical limitation of the ... See full document

... with the Mini-Mental State Examination, the Tilburg Frailty Indicator, the Barthel Index, and the Geriatric Depression Scale ...applied. The normality of the continuous ... See full document

... Objective: to analyze the relationship between the level of frailty and sociodemographic and health characteristics among elderly residents of a long-term care facility (LTCF) in ... See full document

... observed the importance of medical care, combined with the work of the multidisciplinary team present in the ...In the present study, among the 56 elderly ... See full document

... In the present study, life satisfaction among caregivers of the elderly seems to be an outcome greatly influenced by their quality of life, their perception of burden and ... See full document

... investigating the association between fragility in the elderly and the clinical variable functional ...research, of a quantitative nature, attended by 22 ...through the Edmonton ... See full document

... on the quality of life of elderly patients. Aim: to evaluate and to characterize tinnitus in this ...given to 100 elderly patients in a tertiary hospital, asking ... See full document

... shows the results of estimating equation (3) to obtain the effect of the introduction of BVJ on school ...that the estimated effect of the interaction ... See full document

... Objectives: To characterize institutionalized elderly and associate impaired physical mobility with gender, age, presence of diabetes mellitus, hypertension, pain and physical ...124 ... See full document