BACKGROUND The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends against routine screening for colorectal cancer (CRC) in adequately screened persons older than 75 years but does not address the appropriateness of screening in elderly persons without previous screening. OBJECTIVE To determine at what ages CRC screening should be considered in unscreened elderly persons and to determine which tes...

The Law on persons with disabilities is an aspiration and hope in achieving equality, equal rights opportunities for Indonesia. implementation of this law currently not well implemented has succeeded creating their social life. Persons still experience various difficulties life are often neglected. method used writing article a qualitative descriptive approach. data collection technique done by...

The overall aim of the present thesis was to examine, extend and deepen the understanding of very old persons’ experience of participation in everyday life from an occupational perspective. The thesis consists of four empirical studies. The participants are mainly very old persons (80+) living at home and were derived from the gerontological and geriatric population studies in Göteborg (H70), S...

during the last few decades, focus of rehabilitation outcome has been redirected to the lifetime monitoring of quality of life. the purpose of this study was to investigate the differences in quality of life perceptions between participants with spinal cord injury and participants of typical population.this cross-sectional controlled study of 100 adults aged 18-65 years was based on two questio...

happiness is among the concepts which were subject of empirical studies in 1960s. this concept has been used interchangeably with such concepts as joy, satisfaction with life and the like. while meaningfully correlating with the feeling of joy and satisfaction with life, as indicated by numerous researches, the feeling of happiness is affected by different factors and situations. the present re...

tal cancer screening be considered in elderly persons without previous screening? A cost-effectiveness analysis. Life expectancy and comorbidities are import factors in plan of a cancer screening. Colorectal cancer screening was shown to decrease the mortality of colorectal cancer (1,2). The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends colorectal cancer screening beginning at age 50 years and...