Inappropriate Medication Use and Health Outcomes in the Elderly docx

... productive and efficient in maintaining health and using healthcare resources. The model showed little dependence of health status on enabling variables, including income, insurance type, and regional ... of inappropriate medication use on patient health status. These findings lend partial support to the use of Beers criteria in assessing the quality of prescribing...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20

... of siblings is associated with health outcomes in the elderly population, using the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS). The main questions the paper tries to answer are (i) whether the association ... sibling is related to health outcomes in later life. In this paper, I link these two strands of the literature and examine the relationship between sibsh...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 17:20

... y)]. Discussion Main findings Among the participating GPs, definitions of health promo- tion interventions in the elderly widely varied. The opinion regarding the effectiveness of health promotion in the eld- erly ... promotion in the elderly H. Incentives for GPs to provide health promotion in the elderly I. Incentives for patients to accept health promoti...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... communication. In the training area the elderly and/ or caregivers could interact with the exercise experts in real time and at a time of their choosing (Lawrence et al, 2010). Some useful and easy ... cohort, to study the econonomic and environmental facors and to help in assessing whether interactive technologies are useful for the elderly, chronically unwel...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... predicted based on the duration of life of one’s mother and father and grandmothers and grandfathers. If someone’s grandmothers and grandfathers had lived 80 years, it gives him the chance to ... number of the elderly, the pressure on the social and health care systems is increased, too. The programs to support the elderly is financed by the able-to- work...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... enforcement, and routine, including “other” HCUP category (no further information provided in the data dictionary). c Other category includes home health, against medical advice, and alive but destination ... million). Potentially mitigating this growth in the cost of adhe- siolysis may be the continuing trend in the US toward minimally invasive and laparoscopic approache...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 14:20

... and minimize the injuries sustained from falls was recommended. Williams-Johnson, Wilks, and McDonald further illuminate the situation regarding falls among the elderly in Jamaica. [15] In ... further opinions, insights and data, based on experience at the University Hospital of the West Indies, the leading tertiary care and medical teaching institution in t...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 16:20

... indicates the importance of the participation of families in the social life of the elderly, because social support has a positive in uence on their eating habits and health status [23]. In ... intake. Yet zinc intake was in adequate in 100% of the elderly males and 98.5% of the females [6]. A deciency of such nutrients can compromise the health of the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... Tinh, Thua Thien Hue (referred to as Hue), and Dak Lak. 4 With Ha Tinh being among the poorest of Vietnam’s 58 provinces, all provinces in the survey rank in the lowest income quintiles in the ... light on whether formal and informal insurance mechanisms in the household help in alleviating the adverse effects of drought on illness. Some households in the sample h...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 08:19

... residential accommodation in Zimbabwe acquainting them with the purposes of the research proposed and seeking their cooperation. At the time there was no central organisation, including the National Council for the ... a visit to be made. In fact, they used the visiL<!as an opportunity to bring their needs In the fore and to seek help fmancially and otherwise. In...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 07:20