… A closer examination of the pattern of functional loss among older persons with major … basis
that functional disability onset is driven by physiological changes associated with aging and …

… was a high prevalence of functional limitations among older people. The percentage of
older people with disability in BADL was 50.7%, and that of IADL disability was 90.6%. These …

… patient-related factors reflected in participants’ functional … Our results should be interpreted
in light of several limitations. Self-… Furthermore, patients may want to please their healthcare …

… rehabilitation units or geriatric specialty units. Geriatric specialty or Acute Care for Elders (ACE)
units are specifically designed to improve functional outcomes for older patients using an …

… Regarding the latter, nosocomial disability is usually linked to poor mobility, with the …
functional capacity of acutely ill elderly patients. In this respect, our results indicate that, despite its …

… Geriatric patients turn to EDs for a variety of reasons. A better … use of community and primary
care, and contextual variables … hospitalizations, functional decline, complications related to …

… Moreover, primary care is ideally suited to orchestrate the multidisciplinary care needed
by older people with coexisting multimorbidity and functional limitations, given that it is …

… for other age-related functional disabilities such as vision loss or … Family physicians and
other primary care providers might be the only point of social contact for many older patients…

… that, among older patients exposed to polypharmacy, clinical geriatric assessments and …
disability (as assessed with the Functional Independence Measure), the number of days the …

… primary healthcare services. Our objective was to measure the accessibility of elderly people
to public primary health care … research are the elderly, a distance-decay function could be …