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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"instrumental activities of daily living"”.
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Are all Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Equal? A Pilot Study on the Performances of Adults with Acquired Brain Injury
… if a relationship exists among performances of different instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) in adults with acquired brain injury (ABI).</p> <p><strong>Methods</strong>: A two-group correlational design was used to examine the relationship among performances in cooking, medication …
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Examining the relationship among measures of global cognition, executive function, and instrumental activities of daily living: can they all just get along?
The subtle nature of executive function deficits makes them difficult to identify in a clinical context and to measure how they impact an individual’s daily life. Clinical neuropsychological assessments alone are often unable to measure how executive deficiencies impact an individual’s daily life. …
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Caregivers of Older Adults: Burden, Perception of Strain, and Health
… 70 million. Consequently, increasing the number of informal caregivers required to care for an aging population. Research suggests that levels of caregiver strain and their ability to cope can impact the health of caregivers. Tsai's (2003) Middle-Range Theory of Caregiver Stress guided this study …
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A terapia ocupacional na atenção básica: um olhar voltado para o agente comunitário de saúde
The Community Health Agent is one of the professional components of the Family Health Teams, who is responsible for analyzing community needs, for performing the registration of all individuals of his micro area, and for keeping updated records. In addition to this, the agent participates in team …
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Daily activities and functional abilities impacted by cognitive impairment
… between normal cognitive aging and dementia, often marked by decline of one or more cognitive domains and the preservation of daily activities. Previous research has demonstrated that Activities of Daily Living (ADL) tend to be well preserved in individuals with MCI but more complex activities …
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The Relationship Between Neuropsychological Performance and Daily Functioning in Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease
The results of neuropsychological tests are often used by clinicians to make important decisions regarding a demented patient's ability to competently and/or independently perform activities of daily living. However, the ecological validity of most neuropsychological instruments has yet to be …
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Acculturation and disability in Mexican American older adults
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to examine acculturation and disability in Mexican American older adults living independently in the southwestern United States. Design: A prospective cohort study (1993-2005). Setting: Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and California. Participants: …
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Caregiving: An exploration of African American male caregiver roles in Texas
Over the last three decades of family caregiving research, only a few studies have provided insight into the roles men play (Fromme et al., 2005), and even fewer addressed African American males. Traditionally, caregiver research focused on females as primary caregivers. The National Alliance for …
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Activities of Daily Living and Post Hospitalized Rural Elderly Person's Home Help
<p>This study examined the functional status of thirty persons from 75 to 92 years of age following hospitalization. The study was conducted in a rural community. Data were collected on Katz Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), Lawton Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs), and home help …
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Factors Related to Mental Health Status in Elderly Type 2 Diabetes Patients
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the prevalence of cognitive dysfunction, physical disability, and depressive status in elderly diabetes patients, and their relationship with diabetic parameters. MATERIALS AND METHODS: One hundred and thirty three diabetes patients aged 65 years or over were evaluated for …
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Qualidade de vida na psoríase: o olhar da terapia ocupacional através da vivência na graduação
… promotes a negative impact on quality of life and consequently in different areas of human occupation activities of daily living; instrumental activities of daily living; rest and sleep; education; work; mock up; leisure; and social participation. From this perspective there is a need …
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Nutrition parameters predicting functional status decline in the older adult
… by nutritional status. Serum concentrations of albumin, cholesterol, hemoglobin, and percent lymphocytes and white blood cells (to calculate total lymphocyte count) were measured; fat reserves and somatic protein were estimated from anthropometry; and physical signs of malnutrition and a …
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Occupational needs of chronic orthopedic trauma patients
Millions of orthopedic trauma injuries occur yearly in the U.S., requiring surgical intervention and hospital admission. These orthopedic injuries are a leading cause of death and disability in the United States, with lower-extremity injuries being the leading cause of trauma hospitalizations among …
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Human Action Switching in HIV
… to examine how it associates with other measures of executive functioning and with difficulties in the performance of IADLs in a HIV+ sample. Our sample was comprised of 29 HIV+ participants. All the participants completed measures of phonetic fluency (FAS) and semantic fluency [Animals, Human …
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Executive Function and Instrumental ADL Performance in Older Adults with Heart Failure
… failure (HF) and associated with reduced quality of life and increased mortality risk. Executive function has been identified as a significant contributor to instrumental activities of daily living (ADL) performance among various medical populations, though this has yet to be fully examined in a …
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Bridge/Adapt: A Systematic Cognitive Rehabilitation Curriculum
… and self-awareness, is a common consequence of acquired brain injury (ABI). Subsequently, these cognitive impairments result in functional impairments in daily life activities for clients with ABI. Rehabilitation efforts are categorized under two broad approaches: remediation and adaptation. …
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Executive Functioning Markers of Functional Decline and Health Vulnerability in Older Adults: The Role of Temporal Discounting
… discounting (TD), a behavioral economic index of the tendency to devalue rewards or outcomes as delay to their receipt increases, captures future-oriented decision-making, self-control, and reward valuation. However, despite the well-documented predictive utility of TD in a variety of …
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Designing Cognitive-Friendly Kitchens: A Mixed-Methods Investigation of Visual Accessibility and Adaptive Technology for Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment
… normal aging and dementia, increasingly impairs instrumental activities of daily living such as meal preparation. Most kitchen designs prioritize aesthetics over cognitive accessibility, and empirical evidence on how design affects cognitive load, motivation, and functional independence among …
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Residential Interior Environments of Retired Government Employees in Thailand
The purpose of this study was to explain the safety and usability problems in the residential interior environment of Thai older adults. A sample of 163 retired government employees who live in Bangkok, Thailand were asked to complete a self-administered questionnaire which included questions about …
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The Effects of Age, Sex, and Class Stratification and the Use of Health Care Services among Older Adults in the United Kingdom
… providing health services for the growing number of older people will become an increasingly difficult problem. In countries where the health services are provided by the government, these problems are involved with complicated issues of finance and ethics. This is the case of the National Health …
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