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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"Adls"”.
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Executive Function and Instrumental ADL Performance in Older Adults with Heart Failure
… HF severity and performance of instrumental ADLs. The current sample consisted of 120 persons with HF (67.71 ± 9.17 years of age, 33.3% female). Participants completed a brief neuropsychological battery, a series of psychosocial self-report measures, and impedance cardiography was conducted …
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Activities of Daily Living and Post Hospitalized Rural Elderly Person's Home Help
… collected on Katz Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), Lawton Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs), and home help received. Home help received was classified as formal or informal.<br> The greatest areas of dependence in ADLs were bathing and dressing. Eighty-three percent of subjects …
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Older men’s falls risk and confidence in completing activities of daily living: A retrospective cohort study
… Nevertheless, older men continue to engage in ADLs if they feel a fall is inevitable, or if they are unaware of their risk and overconfident in their ability to complete the ADLs. Additionally, older men remain underrepresented in research. The aim of this study is to understand if there is a …
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The effects of apathy and depression on cognitive and functional outcomes in Alzheimer's disease
… have an impact on patients' ability to execute ADLs. Little is still known if apathy subdomains differently predict ADL performance in these patients. In this study, we aimed to quantitatively investigate if global apathy and depression predict ADL performance. We also wanted to establish if the …
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Formal Caregivers Assisting Residents with Moderate and Severe Alzheimer’s Disease: Investigating the use of Communication Strategies during Activities of Daily Living
… the completion of activities of daily living (ADLs). Unfortunately, assisting individuals with more advanced stages of AD is further complicated by communication breakdowns that occur in the dyad (i.e., caregiver and the individual with AD) established to meet a common goal: to complete ADLs. …
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Relationship of psychological well-being and activities of daily living in older adults following hospitalization: A secondary analysis
… ability to perform activities of daily living (ADLs) is fundamental to maintaining older people’s independence and quality of life. Service providers, policy makers, and researchers use ADL measures to develop predictive information about functional outcomes related to specific diseases and …
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Application of learned industriousness theory to brain injury rehabilitation: Examining the effect of effort training on task engagement
… of engagement in activities of daily living (ADLs), (b) investigate the effect of effort training as an intervention to increase engagement in ADLs among participants who exhibit low levels of engagement in performing ADLs, and (c) expand upon learned industriousness literature by examining …
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Patient Perceptions of Functional Abilities after Total Knee Arthroplasty
… Survey Activities of Daily Living Scale (KOS-ADLS), Short Form 12 version 2 (SF-12 v2), and a demographics questionnaire.</p> <p><strong>Results</strong>: KOS-ADLS findings were statistically significant 2.32(7), p = 0.027, SF-12 v2 physical health findings were not statistically significant …
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A Design-by-Contract based Approach for Architectural Modelling and Analysis
… However, practitioners rarely use ADLs, and, instead, they insist on using the Unified Modelling Language (UML) for specifying software architectures. I attribute this to three main issues that have not been addressed altogether by the existing ADLs. Firstly, in their attempt to …
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Body Motion Capture Using Multiple Inertial Sensors
… near-falls and other Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), which makes near-falls particularly difficult to detect. In order to find the subtle difference between ADLs and near-fall and accurately identify the latter, the movement of whole human body needs to be captured and displayed by a computer …
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The Long Term (Five Year) Neuropsychological and Functional Outcomes of Primary Intracerebral Haemorrhage. A Population Based Study.
… and neuropsychological functioning, mood, ADLs and HRQoL. In addition, the study sought to explore: whether there is evidence of recovery in mood, ADLs, and HRQoL in the ICH group over time; whether there are relationships between the different outcomes and, whether demographic variables …
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The relationship of personality traits to depression in a geriatric population.
… results. Perceived physical health, instrumental ADLs, life satisfaction, extraversion, and conscientiousness are inversely related to depressive symptom severity; neuroticism is positively related to depressive symptom severity. Regression models predicted depressive symptom severity, PANAS …
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Cortico-motor adaptations and proprioceptive acuity in patients with unilateral anterior cruciate ligament deficiency
… controls participated. Subjective function (KOS-ADLS) and quadriceps strength (MVC) were measured. Proprioceptive acuity was assessed with a weight discrimination task. Transcranial magnetic stimulation was used to assess four indices of cortico-motor excitability and the quadriceps H-reflex was …
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Design and Development of an Open-Source ADL-Compliant Prosthetic Arm for Transradial Amputees
… ability to perform activities of daily living (ADLs). Below-elbow prostheses are prescribed. The high cost associated with prostheses results in many amputees in low-to-middleincome countries relying on government subsidised devices, which are cosmetic rather than functional, or none at all. …
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Essays on Health Economics
… dependent for some activities of daily living (ADLs), we find that increased use of formal home care has no impact on the use of informal care at the extensive margin or on medical expenses. Among individuals who are partially dependent for several ADLs, we find that increased use of …
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Ambulatory Fall Event Detection with Integrative Ambulatory Measurement (IAM) Framework
… during common Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) and slip-induced falls using an optical motion analysis system. The second study involved collecting laboratory data of common ADLs and slip-induced falls using ambulatory sensors, and evaluating the performance of the new algorithm in fall …
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Assisted living - an agent based architecture for automated cognitive assessment
… to enable discrete event simulations of ADLs, and to track human actions in a sensorised kitchen environment. A cognitive user model was developed based on declarative and semantic memory, and was evaluated on a common cognitive assessment with a data set of 149 older adults. An automated …
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RF micro-systems for 5G front-end signal processing
… applications is 1-dB IL acoustic delay lines (ADLs) on the S0 mode in thin-film LiNbO3, showing record-breaking low IL over a larger bandwidth, opening new horizons for low-power RF acoustic signal processing. Second, the miniature nonreciprocal component based on switched high-performance …
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Development of a Machine Learning Based Fall Detection System for the Elderly and Disabled
… categories (the various types of falls and ADLs). Hence an effective system model was developed and trained to identify the data between both Fall Events and ADLs as well as separately identifying the actual type of Fall/ADLs.
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Thermoelectric properties of mesoscopic systems in GaAs
… transport and thermopower in antidot lattices (ADLs). These ADLs are completely controlled by electrostatic gating. Commensurability features in magnetoresistance show that the antidot potential and Fermi energy of the system can be tuned independently. The magneto-thermopower shows an even …
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