Compression of morbidity in the elderly pot

... 1585 2. The Compression of Morbidity 2.1. The hypothesis and the paradigm The Compression of Morbidity hypothesis was introduced in 1980 [1] and has become the dominant paradigm underlying health ... more morbidity in a typical life, the so-called ``failure of suc- cess'' [8,9], as shown in the second line of the ®gure. If postponement of t...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... considerable improvement in the health of the elderly, thus extending the period of physical auto- nomy, and retarding the onset of the effects of aging. The fact that the majority of elderly people ... provide the means for autonomous living to the majo- rity of the elderly population. However, the continuing increase in the number of aged citiz...

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... VKAs is one of the major determinants of bleeding, an INR >3.0 doubling the risk compared to an INR within the therapeutic range of 2.0-3.0 [41]. Furthermore, hemorrhagic risk increases exponentially ... interval and expressed as the “time in the therapeutic range” (TTR). Even in clinical trials, the TTR is often no more than 60-65% (as an example, the TTR in...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20

... Mary in 1793. The secularizing influence of the French united also with the democratizing influence of the Revolution in diminishing the influence of the church upon the colleges and emphasizing ... not the training of ministers but the secular one of developing the practical virtue necessary in the opening up of a new country. The Academy was open...

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... silent films they were not interested. Warner Brothers on the other hand were not making so much money since they did not own their own theatres and were finding difficulty in getting their product ... right surround channel. After the heyday of development in the fifties the cinema industry did not see any new innovations until the seventies. This being mainly due to the dw...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 15:20

...  techniques include making the bedroom environment safer by removing potentially dangerous heavy or breakable objects, using heavy curtains on bedroom windows, keeping doors locked at ...  is cognitive behavioural therapy 34  of insomnia often involves teaching sleep hygiene techniques in c...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... reduce the rate of falls in the elderly. In one study, 34 the interactive group had a relative risk of falling of 0.39 compared with the control group. Interventions included the modification of ... are involved in falls among the elderly. Many of these factors can be modified. Figure 1 shows how intrinsic and extrinsic factors can combine to change the li...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... documented, these are rarely of sufficient magnitude to be of clinical importance. The potential harm of labelling an individual as demented must be weighed against possible benefits. There is insufficient evidence ... impairment. 904 One potential benefit of early identification is the ability to plan for the anticipated further cognitive decline. For example, the assignment...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... respectively 14 . In another assay, conducted in the special infrastructures for the protection of the elderly in Greece, it has been reported that 72.9% of the males and 77.1% of females had ... approximately 5-10% of all cases of hypertension and results from an underlying, identifiable cause. In the remaining 95% of the cases, no known cause is bein...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 19:21

... efforts of bearing down increases the intra-abdominal pressure, facilitating the development of a stripping wave, resulting in stool evacuation. Common causes of constipation in the elderly In the ... also observed in the subgroup of 28 elderly patients. Despite efforts in including the elderly in RCTs, most studies on the use of laxatives in th...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 20:20