Purpose Using a three-week household activity-travel survey, this paper explores the relationship between individuals’ selfreported physical, mental and social health conditions and their time allocation for different types of in-home and outof-home time activities. Methods A path model is developed to investigate the roles of activity-travel time use on the self-reported health conditions, whi...

BACKGROUND In spite of evidence that physical activity has beneficial effects on health and age-related functional decline, there is a scarcity of detailed and accurate information on objectively measured daily activity and patterns of such activity in older adults. METHODS Participants in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (n = 611, 50% male, mean age 67, range 32-93) wore the Actihea...

OBJECTIVES To identify informal primary caregiver characteristics associated with care transitions of community-dwelling older persons with impairments in daily living activities. METHOD Data for this study were pooled to observe transitions from Wave 1-Wave 2 and Wave 2-Wave 3 of the Second Longitudinal Survey on Aging (LSOA II). The sample includes respondents with at least one impairment i...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to find the effects of a visual perceptual intervention on visual-motor integration and activities of daily living performance of children with cerebral palsy as subjects. [Methods] This study was conducted with 56 children who were diagnosed as having cerebral palsy. The visual perceptual intervention was implemented for 8 weeks, 3 times a week, for 30 m...

In-home health assessment of elders is often accomplished with the help of caregivers, usually family and friends. When formal support is necessary, it is commonly provided by case managers, professionals who visit the home to assess the mental and physical status of the elder, or “client.” In an effort to understand how ADLs are collected, we performed semi-structured interviews with five case...

Yellow wrasses (Halichoeres chrysus) show clear daily activity patterns. The fish hide in the substrate at (subjective) night, during the distinct rest phase. Initial entrainment in a 12h:12h light-dark (12:12 LD) cycle (mean period 24.02h, SD 0.27h, n = 16) was followed by a free run (mean period 24.42h, SD 1.33h) after transition into constant dim light conditions. Light pulses of a comparabl...

Activity pattern of European wild rabbits has been studied in a Mediterranean ecosystem of SW Iberian Peninsula, from where they are a native species. The daily activity pattern of rabbits in the area is similar to those found in other countries where the species has been introduced : high activity at night and at twilights, and scarce activity by day. However, this general pattern shows season...

BACKGROUND As gait speed and transfer times are considered to be an important measure of functional ability in older adults, several systems are currently being researched to measure this parameter in the home environment of older adults. The data resulting from these systems, however, still needs to be reviewed by healthcare workers which is a time-consuming process. METHODS This paper prese...

Behaviour and use of the cage area were studied in 96 rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) kept in an enriched cage system - with access to shelter and raised height at the back of the cage - and in a conventional cage system to estimate the effects of the environmental enrichment on the rabbits' welfare. The rabbits' behaviour and placement in the cage were observed, using continuous video recordin...

OBJECTIVES To (1) create a single metric of disability using Rasch modelling to be used for comparing disability severity levels across groups and countries, (2) test whether the interval-level measures were invariant across countries, sociodemographic and health variables and (3) examine the gains in precision using interval-level measures relative to ordinal scores when discriminating between...