falls balance and gait disorders in the elderly

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 16:20

... 364 old elderly, born in 1904, 1909 and 1914 and living in Helsinki, was examined in 1990 and 1991 (Oral-HAS). The main objective of this thesis was to document the current status and later ... joined to form the reference line. Distance between this line and highest point of the maxillary alveolar crest was measured at the midline, and along the infraorbital vertical line and the ... health of the elderly. Only few studies have been performed on prosthetic rehabilitation of the elderly in Finland. The Mini-Finland study performed in 1978-1980 (Vehkalahti et al., 1991) included...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 18:20

... invest more in education in an attempt to recoup more returns from the investment. Better-educated people in return are likely to be more productive and efficient in maintaining health and using ... control for the underlying confounding problem and therefore help minimize the endogeneity. The full Model F adds in the prior health-status and health-condi- tion variables. The coefficient of inappropriate ... confounding effect of the total number of prescriptions taken. Adding predisposing and enabling variables in Model C, the coefficient remained virtually the same as before, indicating that these two sets...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20

... difculty initiating and maintaining sleep. With age, several changes occur that can place one at risk for sleep disturbance including increased prevalence of medical conditions, increased ...  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 night, and sleeping ... disturbances. The present review discusses age-related changes in sleep architecture, aetiology, presentation, and treatment of sleep disorders prevalent among the elderly and other factors...

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... driving and to instruct these patients to stopdriving.If the physicianlearnsthat the patientcontinuestodrivedespitethisinstruction, the physicianisrequiredtonotify the SuperintendentofMotorVehicles(Motor ... W =Score3 =Score1 =Score5 =Score3 =Score3 ScoringWORLDbackwards(instructionsforitem#4) Write the person’s response below the correct response. Draw lines matching the same letters in the correct response and the response given. TheselinesMUSTNOTcrosseachother.Drawonlyonelineperletter. The person’sscoreis the maximumnumberoflinesthatcanbedrawnwithoutcrossingany. Examples: =Score0 Foldalongthisline and showinstructionstoperson Foldline Item11 Item9 12 12 Cognitive ... cognitive impairment and dementia in the elderly. Where the guideline refers to “people affected by dementia”, this indicates not only the person with dementia but also the people in their “network...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 18:20

... birth in full-term infants, and it is certainly not mature in premature infants. Keeping in mind that $10% of births in the United States are premature, the basic understanding of respiration in the immature ... to minimize the effect of the disturbance on the overall function of the system and to attempt to return it to baseline. CONCEPT II: The central neuronal processing and integration in the brainstem ... mechanical, including photocopying, microfilming, and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Current printing (last digit): 10987654321 PRINTED...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 17:20

... the increase in the elderly population will be of the order of 30–140% in the next 30 years, depending on the country. Elderly people themselves are growing older, increasing the numbers and ... level on the health and nutritional status of the elderly in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. WHO therefore advocated and provided resources for the inclusion of the elderly within a ... spots along the boundary of the map, with at least two 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...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 18:20

... of the Latvian elderly believe that they need no help in their household work, but 25% of them need it in cleaning up their Figure 1. Number of individuals in the households of the elderly in ... 1691-3078 (39%), the rest of them – in households of several individuals. In Timisoara the majority of the elderly live in couples, the size of other households is about the same, but the proportion of the ... their community residents, than it is in Latvia. Both the elderly in Dumbravita and those in Jelgava feel well in their homes, and they like their apartments or houses. In Jelgava 73% of the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... retired from the study, 66 because they died and 36 because of other causes. The participants were interviewed and given a dental examination at their institutions in a room guarantee- ing acceptable ... health increased mortality risk in our sample of the institutionalised elderly. Some of the present study’s limitations need to be dis- cussed. The sampling method was not random and only nine ... levels (independent, some help needed and dependent). Their medical histories were checked for obtaining data on entry to institutions and the medicines being used. A doctor estimated the number...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... prevention of falls in 1. See “Glossary”, p. 127. 44 Prevention of falls in the elderly living at home RISK FACTORS INTRINSIC TO THE ELDERLY PERSON Balance and gait impairment The sense of balance, ... Prevention of falls in the elderly living at home Falls and their consequences in the elderly populations (G 65 years) of France and Quebec Elderly population 1.25% 0.06% Falls Injury consultation Hospitalization Deaths occasional: ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 17:20

... in 1991, including a variable indicating whether the person subsequently died (by the 1997 survey). The regression includes the standard covariates (age dummies, education, and province dummies). ... if the family has to pay for the husband’s medical expenses, then we can view this as another adverse income effect, which could (in principle) increase the labor supply of both the husband and ... men’s and women’s productivity, and non-labor income. The budget constraint is therefore: 5 The separation property unlikely holds in the Chinese context. To begin with, there is no real land...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 13:20

... closely linked with recurrent falls and fractures, lost independence requiring support and care, poor wound healing, and an increase in complications including infections, pressure sores and skin ... tingling of the hands and feet (parasthesia), dementia, glossitis and chelosis. Low vitamin B12 is also an independent risk factor in developing venous thromboembolic disease in men over the age ... Weight loss and malnutrition in the elderly – the shared role of GPs and APDsCLINICAL PRACTICE 16. Smith SM, Oliver SA, Zwart SR, et al. Nutritional status is altered in the self- neglecting elderly. ...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... Falls in the Elderly Falls are the leading cause of injury-related visits to emergency departments in the United States and the primary etiology of accidental deaths in persons over the ... to falls. The most common etiologies of falls are listed in Table 3. 23 The Changing Approach to Falls in the Elderly KEY: A = Patient with an accidental fall and no intrinsic or extrinsic ... multifactorial intervention to reduce the risk of falling among elderly people living in the community. N Engl J Med 1994;331:821-7. TABLE 8 Critical Steps in Reducing the Risk of Falls in the Elderly...

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