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Showing 1 to 20 of 140 for “"Elderly people"”.
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Community Service for Elderly People in Riverside City
… an increasing concern for providing services for elderly people, and most communities in the United States offer a wide variety of them. Inadequate planning and little evaluation are common problems in the services offered by many communities.</p> <p>The main objectives of this study were to …
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Information and Decision-Making Preferences of Community Dwelling Elderly People with Diabetes Mellitus
… preferences of the growing population of elderly people with diabetes mellitus who dwell in the community. The increased diversity of treatments for chronic illness has led health care providers to examine the information and decision-making preferences of these people. People are living …
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The Use Of The Cognitive Status Examination In Detecting Cognitive Impairment In Elderly People
… is expected that by the year 2030, the number of elderly people with dementia will increase by 200%. Dementia is easily recognized in its advanced stages but can be overlooked in the early phase. Family members, care-givers and even the treating medical practitioner may mistakenly attribute the …
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ActiveLifestyle: a persuasive platform to monitor and motivate physical training plan compliance in elderly people
… indicator of quality of life among older people. It appears that especially components of health-related fitness and functional performance, or serious, chronic conditions and diseases that directly influence the components of fitness and performance, are related to perceived health among …
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Promoting the quality of life of elderly people in nursing home care : a hermeneutical approach
… will promote the quality of the lives of older people who live in nursing homes. However, before this professional issue is addressed, it is necessary to explore the meaning of the underlying concept the quality of life, and this constitutes the second issue.The purpose of this research is …
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Design and Development of the eBear: A Socially Assistive Robot for Elderly People with Depression
… with artificial intelligence in assisting the elderly people with depression. We investigated how social robots can become companions of elderly individuals with depression and improve their mood and increase their happiness and well-being. The robotic platform built in this thesis is a …
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The Effect of Introducing New Transportation Services on the Community Engagement of Elderly People and Parents
… One of the urgent issues they have faced is elderly people's lack of accessibility to public transportation. They have introduced new community transportation services to keep the minimum transportation accessibility to elderly people, but they are worried about the increase in subsidy due to …
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An ethnographic study of the well-being of elderly people in a matrilineal society in Malawi, Africa
An ethnographic study of 30 elderly men and women was done in a matrilineal group in Malawi, a small landlocked country in southeastern Africa, with the purpose of determining how societal change influences the well-being of the elderly. The study was carried out on the outskirts of the capital …
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Effects of Interaction and of Instruction in Changing the Perceptions of Children and Elderly People About Each Other
<p>This study examined children's perceptions of elderly people, elderly people's perceptions of children, and changes in perceptions following either a six-week program of interaction between a children's group and a nursing home population or a six-week unit of instruction about elderly people …
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Development of an occupational therapy programme for elderly people living with HIV/AIDS when performing activities of daily living
Background: Elderly people are increasingly being infected by HIV; however, available data does not often include how the pandemic is affecting this population group with regard to activities of daily living. HIV places enormous stress on infected individuals that contribute to and hinder elderly …
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The Challenges Facing Elderly People in Accessing Health Services Provided by Government Health Facilities in Moshi Municipality of Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
… study was to investigate the challenges facing elderly people in accessing health services in public health facilities a case study of Moshi Municipality. Within Moshi Municipality eighteen health facilities were selected. The target population was elderly people, health practitioners and people …
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An assessment of needs, services, and problems of the elderly people in the six villages of Dzanani, in Limpopo province
… needs, services and problems that are faced by elderly people at the six different neighbourhoods that constitute the village of Dzanani, in the Limpopo Province. This dissertation also provides the reader with an overview account of the research design as well as the research techniques, which …
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Striving to maintain well-being: self-management of chronic pain by elderly people living in rural communities in North-East Thailand
Chronic pain is a common problem among elderly people. Proper self-management of chronic pain is crucial in promoting general well-being; however, elderly people who live in Thai rural communities have limited access to self-management resources. Understanding the way these people self-manage …
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The meaning of quality in living service environments: An analysis of the experiences of people with disabilities, elderly people and service workers
… the study was to examine the experiences of both people with disabilities and elderly people and to identify their perceptions of quality as it relates to living in a service or being supported by a service to live in the community. The study was naturalistic in design and used a phenomenological …
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How Can a Focus on the Ethical Notions of Dignity and Respect for Autonomy Help to Improve Healthcare for Elderly People in Islamic Countries?
… for autonomy help to improve health care for elderly people in Islamic countries. An ethic for aging relies on the principle that the losses of age do not detract from a person's essential autonomy. Thus, care should be provided without assuming that older people are different from those of …
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Consumption Levels of Fruits And Vegetables and their Relationship to Health and Wellbeing of Elderly People of Different Socio- Economic Background in Ilala District, Dar es Salaam
… their relationship to health and wellbeing of elderly people of different socio economic background in Ilala district, Dar es Salaam. The study was a cross-sectional descriptive research design with a convenient sample in purposively selected urban and semi-urban Ilala district, Dar es Salaam. …
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