Association between multimorbidity patterns and disability among older people covered by long-term care insurance in Shanghai, China

Z Wang, W Peng, M Li, X Li, T Yang, C Li, H Yan, X Jia… - BMC public health, 2021 - Springer
… 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 …

Prevalence of hospital-associated disability in older adults: a meta-analysis

C Loyd, AD Markland, Y Zhang, M Fowler… - … of the American Medical …, 2020 - Elsevier
… 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 …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term care system in Japan

M Yamada, H Arai - Annals of geriatric medicine and research, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
It is one of the oldest welfare facilities for older people in the … In this environment, it is not
sufficient to provide medical care … and maximizing functional abilities of older individuals. ) The …

Social isolation and loneliness: the new geriatric giants: approach for primary care

A Freedman, J Nicolle - Canadian Family Physician, 2020 - cfp.ca
… 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

[HTML][HTML] Frequent mental distress among adults, by disability status, disability type, and selected characteristics—United States, 2018

RA Cree - MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2020 - cdc.gov
… Third, prevalence of mental distress might be underestimated if adults with severe functional
and cognitive disabilities (with potentially higher distress) are underrepresented in BRFSS …

Social support and depressive symptoms among family caregivers of older people with disabilities in four provinces of urban China: the mediating role of caregiver …

Y Zhong, J Wang, S Nicholas - BMC geriatrics, 2020 - Springer
function scores of older people with disabilities. In model 1, the dependent variable was
depressive symptoms and the association between … , which balances family care with increased …

Multimodal accessibility to primary health services for the elderly: A case study of Naples, Italy

G Carpentieri, C Guida, HE Masoumi - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
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 …

Key factors associated with adherence to physical exercise in patients with chronic diseases and older adults: an umbrella review

D Collado-Mateo, AM Lavín-Pérez… - … and public health, 2021 - mdpi.com
… on patients with chronic disease patients or older people as … but also in terms of health-related
physical function and other … Despite all these limitations, the authors of this work honestly …

Effect of chronic pain on the occurrence of falls in older adults with disabilities: a prospective cohort study

H Honda, R Ashizawa, K Take, T Hirase… - … theory and practice, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
… reported that pain is associated with static, dynamic, … between chronic pain and balance
function could not be fully verified because of lack of assessment of balance function in this study…

… geriatric assessments and collaborative medication reviews by geriatrician and family physician for improving health-related quality of life in home-dwelling older …

R Romskaug, E Skovlund, J Straand… - JAMA internal …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
… that, among older patients exposed to polypharmacy, clinical geriatric assessments and …
disability (as assessed with the Functional Independence Measure), the number of days the …