BACKGROUND A better understanding of the health status of older inpatients could underpin the delivery of more individualised, appropriate health care. METHODS 1418 patients aged ≥ 70 years admitted to 11 hospitals in Australia were evaluated at admission using the interRAI assessment system for Acute Care. This instrument surveys a large number of domains, including cognition, communication,...

Gait is a basic requirement for daily activity and is known as one of the most universal and complex of all human activities (Sadeghi et al, 2000). The aim of gait is to support the body against gravity while generating movements to propel the body forward. For producing the smooth rhythmical motion of the able-bodied gait, it requires precise coordination between the tasks of propulsion and ba...

Sport-related concussions are becoming common place in athletics and daily activity. Proper assessment and management of concussions are crucial, as repeat concussion can result in prolonged symptoms and catastrophic outcomes. New research is changing the way concussions are managed. The previously used systems have been abandoned in favor of individualized assessment and management using a mul...

OBJECTIVE To determine activities of daily living, quality of life, social support and depression levels of elderly individuals and the factors affecting each of these items. METHODS The cross-sectional study was conducted from August 2009 to June 2012 in Edirne, Turkey, and included elderly individuals over 60 years of age. Data was collected using a survey form, the Katz Activities of Daily...

We examined functional transitions in both the activities of daily living (ADL), and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL), over a 1-year interval among older Japanese living in a community, then estimated their physically active life expectancy (PALE) and instrumentally active life expectancy (IALE). In 1992, all residents aged 65 or older who lived in Saku City, Nagano, Japan, were f...

OBJECTIVE To examine if the reduced number of items in the modified version of the Health Assessment Questionnaire (MHAQ) concerning difficulty of performing activities of daily living may lead to a reduced ability to detect clinical changes compared with the original HAQ. METHODS In 56 consecutive ambulatory patients with rheumatoid arthritis, we examined the mean change in clinical and labo...

In such an analysis we would not only determine for each age the probability of survival, but also the subsidiary probabilities of those surviving on the basis of their functional effectiveness. This would range from individuals who are completely dependent on others, even for carrying on their daily living activities, to those fully equipped to carry on with no apparent handicaps all the funct...

Variation in daily activity patterns facilitates temporal partitioning of habitat and resources among species. Knowledge of temporal niche partitioning in paleobiological systems has been limited by the difficulty of obtaining reliable information about activity patterns from fossils. On the basis of an analysis of scleral ring and orbit morphology in 33 archosaurs, including dinosaurs and pter...

This study evaluated the association between anemia and physical functional capacity in a cross-sectional population-based sample of 709 hospitalized elderly patients aged 60 years and over admitted to the Madre Teresa Hospital, Belo Horizonte, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The Mann-Whitney or "t" test, and chi-square or Fisher exact test were used for quantitative and categorical variables, r...

Quantitative data on men's time allocation among the Ache o f Paraguay are presented. The data indicate that Ache men work almost 7 "hours daily in direct food acquisition, which is the major daily activity. The amount o f time Ache men work is compared with the amount reported for other modern hunter-gatherers and tribal horticulturalists. The characterization z~f huntergatherers as the "origi...