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Showing 1 to 20 of 71 for “"advanced age"”.
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Deglutition in Advanced Age
New Zealand’s population is ageing; it is forecast that more older adults will be living longer. Ageing is associated with increased health conditions, diseases, and medications, some of which cause swallowing problems (dysphagia). It is essential that clinicians understand swallowing function in …
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Cardiovascular Health in Advanced Age
New Zealand‘s population is ageing. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) may account for 53% of death in people aged 85+. Nevertheless, little is known about the cardiovascular health status of those in advanced age. The aim of the study is to assess cardiovascular health and examine the relationships …
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Effect of Advanced Age on the Innate Immune Response to Cutaneous Wound Infection
… afflicted with chronic wounds are the elderly. Advanced age is associated with a decline in immunologic function that contributes to a poor response to vaccination, infection and tissue injury resulting in prolonged hospital stays and age-related morbidity and mortality. Specifically, clinical …
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Teen, Optimal, and Advanced Age Mothers in Canada: Differences in Social Support, Parenting, and Child Behavioural Outcomes
The age range of first-time mothers in Canada is increasing, with an astonishing 195% increase in the number of women delaying their pregnancies after 35 years of age. However, the research around maternal and child outcomes usually focus on teen (under 19 years) and optimal age (20-34 years) …
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Effects of Smoking/nicotine on the Auditory Middle Latency Response in Older and Younger Adults
… auditory pathways. The possible interaction of advanced age, hearing loss, and gender are also considered. Several follow-up studies are indicated to clarify the effects of nicotine and advanced age on the AMLR.
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Early parental loss, socioeconomic stressors, and health in later life: Evidence for gender disparity
… stress process model and the cumulative disadvantage theory, this dissertation examined how childhood and later life stressors affected cognitive and subjective health in older adults. Using three main articles, this dissertation investigated (1) the effect of early parental loss on cognitive …
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Remembering Elderly Women in Early America: A survey of how aged women were memorialized in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century tombstone inscriptions, death notices, funeral sermons, and memoirs
By analyzing the language used in tombstone inscriptions, death notices, funeral sermons, and memoirs, this thesis reviews how cultural expectations placed on women during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries impacted the reputation of aged women. Specifically, it demonstrates how the …
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Muscle structure and function in older adults with a rotator cuff tear
… older adults, and prevalence increases with more advanced age. Symptoms of a rotator cuff tear include muscle atrophy, fatty infiltration, decreased strength, and a loss of functional ability. However, a healthy aging process is also associated with atrophy, reduced strength, and declines in …
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Stroke risk factors, outcomes and models of stroke care in a culturally and linguistically Diverse (CALD) elderly population.
… The majority of stroke patients are elderly. Advanced age, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, atrial fibrillation, smoking and heavy alcohol drinking are the major risk factors. Treatment of modifiable risk factors is an important strategy for primary and secondary stroke prevention. The primary …
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Senescent Changes in the Kidney of the Yellow Mud Turtle Kinosternon flavescens
… do not undergo senescence. This study addresses age-related changes that occur in the kidneys of reptiles and compares them to senescent changes in mammalian kidneys. Kidney sections from a wild population of turtles ranging in age from 6 to 35 years were examined histologically by light and …
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Aging well : the effect of community and social resources on subjective wellbeing among older South Africans
… policy as more of the world's population reaches advanced age. Robust, cross-cultural evidence shows that physical functioning and health generally decline with age, and declines differently for women than men. Yet, there is no consensus regarding the patterns for subjective wellbeing. Subjective …
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Elderly Offenders: An American Corrections Catch-22?
… As general prison populations continue to age, the type and extent of inmate health care needs will change. This thesis examines the experiences of the elderly offender in the prison environment. Specifically, the conditions surrounding incarceration are evaluated, including unique …
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Subjective Definitions of Leisure by Older Women
… Two-Factor Index of Social Position. Advanced age, race, depressive symptoms, poor functional health, cognitive impairment, and living alone were assumed to have a potentially confounding influence upon subjective descriptions of enjoyment and were therefore controlled. Eighty, …
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An analysis of the effectiveness of existing land reform policy in uplifting the socio-economic standards of the war veterans of the liberation of Namibia
… lack of education to comprehend the policy, and advanced age. The study therefore recommends that the land reform policy be reviewed to address issues that directly affect and relate to the war veterans; that the Ministry of Veterans Affairs put in place mechanisms or policies to resettle and …
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Longitudinal Change In Regional Cortices And Fluid Intelligence
… of the general intelligence. They have distinct age-related trajectories of change. Jung and Haier proposed Parieto-Frontal Integration Theory (P-FIT, 2007) to account for the inter-person variance in reasoning intelligence. Some brain regions such as prefrontal, parietal, temporal and anterior …
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White Matter Integrity And Age Related Differences In Reaction Time Components
… is a well-documented phenomenon associated with advanced aging. Age-related deterioration in white matter integrity might play a role in age-related increase in reaction time (RT). However, the association between microstructural differences in particular white matter regions or tracts with RT is …
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Risk, Outcomes, and Costs in Neurosurgery – The New Frontier in Health Services Research
… for all outcomes, with higher sensitivity. Advanced age does not increase the risk of poor outcomes after surgical resection of primary or metastatic intracranial tumors, after controlling for other risk factors. We not find smoking to be associated with early (30-day) peri-operative …
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