Normal performance on the Tower of Hanoi puzzle by amnesic patients has been taken as support for viewing this problem solving task as having a nondeclarative memory component. Individuals in each decade of life between the 20s and 80s were asked to solve this puzzle four times in four sessions with intersession intervals from 1 to 7 days (Davis & Keller, 1998). Participants in their 70s and 80...

Many alterations have been described of both innate and acquired immunity in the elderly. Age-associated dysregulation of the immune function has been demonstrated in diverse species including humans. Immunosenescence contributes to morbidity and mortality due to the greater incidence or reactivation of infectious diseases and, possibly, autoimmunity and cancer. The most relevant modifications ...

Taste ability is known to be impaired in elderly and even more so in acutely hospitalized elderly people. To our knowledge, no study has investigated the association between taste impairment and mortality. Our aim was to examine this association in acutely hospitalized older people. In a prospective study, 200 acutely hospitalized elderly people ≥70 years of age were included between November 2...

The definition of normal body temperature as 37 degrees C still is considered the norm worldwide, but in practice there is a widespread confusion of the evaluation of body temperature, especially in elderly individuals. In this paper, we discuss the relevance of normal body temperature as 37 degrees C and consequences in clinical practice. Our conclusion is that body temperature should be evalu...

PURPOSE This article profiles the housing settings of frail elderly individuals, whether their homes are facilitating or impeding their ability to live in the community, and the change in disability and housing status before and after passage of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act. DESIGN AND METHODS The analysis relies primarily on statistical analysis of the 1995 national American Hous...

[Purpose] The aim of this study was to examine the relationships between oral and mental/physical functions community-dwelling older adults. [Participants Methods] We conducted a mail questionnaire survey 1,940 persons aged 65 years or older. Using basic checklist, we investigated function, motor low nutrition, depressive tendencies, cognitive confinement, compared results groups with without i...

background and aim: autobiography is a kind of narrative writing about a person written by that same person. indeed, it is a type of writing about self that is full of subjectivity and experience. the present study investigated the effect of autobiography method on the comprehension skill of hearing-impaired students. methods: international standardized reading literacy questions (2001) was emp...

BACKGROUND Age is thought to be strongly associated with intensive care outcomes, but this relationship may be confounded by many clinical variables. OBJECTIVES To compare clinical characteristics of elderly patients (> or = 65 years) admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) with those in younger patients and to identify the risk factors which independently could predict mortality in patient...

Impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) and type 2 diabetes including undiagnosed isolated postchallenge hyperglycemia (IPH) are common in the elderly. The aim of this study was to investigate the insulin secretion and sensitivity in Korean elderly lean diabetic women. Forty-one lean women aged 65-88 years took 2 hr oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) and were stratified according to the WHO criteria (...