This paper presents a health smart home (HSH) system represent a temporary or durable alternative to the hospitalization or the recourse to the establishments of lodging of long life – elderly people's homes or specialized centers. The patient is not then constrained any more to give up his residence and the life in society. He preserves a broad autonomy in his social environment and privative,...

OBJECTIVE Marine polyunsaturated n-3 fatty acids (n-3 PUFA) may have cardioprotective effects and beneficial influence on the fibrotic process. We evaluated the associations between serum marine n-3 PUFA and selected biomarkers of fibrosis and cardiac remodeling in elderly patients with acute myocardial infarction. SETTING From the ongoing OMega-3 fatty acids in Elderly patients with Myocardi...

BACKGROUND With the increasing prevalence of diabetes in patients aged over 75, the task of ensuring a good quality of life became even greater. This study aimed to evaluate quality of life of the very elderly (≥75 years) type 2 diabetic primary care patient, in an urban family practice setting. METHODS A cross sectional study was conducted. Quality of life (QoL) was assessed with the Portugu...

INTRODUCTION Type 2 diabetes is a metabolic disorder and as such should affect the components of body composition of diabetics. The changes it induces in patients complement the anthropological characteristics of this disease. The AIM of the present study was to assess the effect type 2 diabetes has on some of the body composition components in male diabetics. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study i...

Background: Depression and elderly type 2 diabetes mellitus often coexist but poorly studied. This study evaluates depressive symptoms and the associated risk factors among elderly type 2 diabetes mellitus patients at selected primary care clinics in rural Perak, Malaysia.Method:Face-to-face interview was conducted to collate socio-demographic data and medical history among participants. The va...

OBJECTIVE To examine the individual and combined effects of depression and diabetes on mortality and disability over 6 years among Mexican Americans aged ≥75. METHOD The final sample included 1,785 participants from the Hispanic Established Population for the Epidemiological Study of the Elderly. Cox proportional hazards regression models were used to estimate the hazard ratios for incidence ...