Protecting the Elderly in Times of Disaster: The Critical Need for Comprehensive Disaster Planning and Exercise Design doc

... Forum on Public Policy Protecting the Elderly in Times of Disaster: The Critical Need for Comprehensive Disaster Planning and Exercise Design James C. Hagen, Director of the Disaster ... issues and challenges of disaster planning for the elderly. Suggestions are provided for concrete action, and a there is a call for the LTC co...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 20:20

... once in the year  2 in 3 seniors visited a doctor at least once in the year  1 in 3 reported that they did not make a single visit to a doctor (?)  The elderly make greatest demands on the ... and mental functioning, perceived social handicap stands in the way of realizing quality of life Symposium on Health Care Challenges for an Ageing Population: Managi...

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... the old often takes the form of living together. Another included indicator of social relationships is widowhood. Both of these are dichotomous measures, where 1 equals the name of the variables and ... distance, managing money, and using the phone) measuring both the difficulties of activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities of daily living (...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 18:20

... percentage points higher participation rates for men in countries like Austria, Germany and Spain, and for females in the Netherlands and Sweden. Moreover, we show that the declining health condition ... joint impact of all the health related variables. Results for women are provided in the last column of Table 4.10. As the results indicate, only in Austri...

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... points in the middle of the map. Link points to a landmark so they can be identified. Randomly choose one of the numbers, and make that your starting point. Option 6. Locate the centre of ... Table 8 summarizes the prevalence of anaemia and mean haemoglobin for men and women and Fig. 4 shows the distribution of haemoglobin levels in elderly people....

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 18:20

... as the active participation of the el- derly in the community so as to maintain or improve quality of life (39). The present findings stress the need for better organization of and quality in ... States), incorporating weightings and taking the clusters and stratification used in the sample design into account. The present study was approved by the et...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... Review of Approaches to Mobility Telemonitoring 561 who fear they will remain unattended in the event of an accident. The increasing use of telemonitoring to support inde- pendent living inside and ... refers to the amount of time he/she is involved in dynamic activities, such as walking or running, as well as the amount of time spent in the static activities of...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... Active Ageing Index was computed for Singapore based on the NSSC 2005. (Annex A explains the construction of the index.) A total of 13 indicators reflecting the three dimensions of Active Ageing ... MCYS. Elderly and the Community The social capital 5 level of the elderly and the future elderly is measured using the four components – trust, reciprocit...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 17:20

... 2020–2025. 22 The growing of the aging population Functional health status of the elderly in Taiwan Healthy Aging & Clinical Care in the Elderly 2010:2 11 will require equivalent increase in health ... RESEARCH Healthy Aging & Clinical Care in the Elderly 2010:2 9 Functional Health Status of the Elderly in Taiwan Tina Wu Clinical Counselling and...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20