UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Older adults experience activity and participation limitations that are associated with ageing. Activity and participation limitations affect an older adult's ability to engage in meaningful daily activities and valued life roles. Occupational therapists provide interventions to reduce such limitations and monitor client change to ensure that interventions are effective...

Background: functional assessment is an important component of the management of older adults in the emergency department (ED) as the function level has been identified as a predictor of adverse events including ED re-presentation. A systematic review (SR) of all functional assessments utilised in EDs has not been undertaken making assessment selection, on the basis of evidence, difficult for s...

We describe the use of telemedicine by the Biobehavioral Service at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics to conduct brief functional analyses for children with developmental and behavioral disorders who live in rural areas of Iowa. Instead of being served at our outpatient facility, participants received initial behavioral assessments in their local schools or social service agencies vi...

Global environmental change affects the sustained provision of a wide set of ecosystem services. Although the delivery of ecosystem services is strongly affected by abiotic drivers and direct land use effects, it is also modulated by the functional diversity of biological communities (the value, range, and relative abundance of functional traits in a given ecosystem). The focus of this article ...

OBJECTIVE To compare standardized and functional aphasia tests in patients after acute stroke. DESIGN Data were collected at baseline and at 6 months in 2 prospective single-centre studies: one observational study (study I, n=119) and one randomized trial of moclobemide vs placebo (study II, n=89). SUBJECTS Patients with aphasia after acute stroke. METHODS Degree of aphasia was examined u...

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) has received increasing attention not only because of its potential as a precursor for Alzheimer's disease but also as a predictor of conversion to other neurodegenerative diseases. Although MCI has been defined clinically, accurate and efficient diagnosis is still challenging. Although neuroimaging techniques hold promise, compared to commonly used biomarkers in...

Functional Alignment is a new method to determine the orientation of a joint's primary rotational axis and the associated movement. It employs three unique concepts. First, data analyses are based upon assessment of spatial positions and not upon movement in a time sequence. Second, analyses are conducted on derived joint rotation matrices instead of tracked markers. This permits reanalysis of ...

Eighty patients and thirty controls were interviewed using one interview that promoted personal disclosure and another about everyday topics. Speech was scored using the Thought, Language and Communication scale (TLC). All participants completed the Self-Concept Clarity Scale (SCCS) and the Varieties of Inner Speech Questionnaire (VISQ). Patients scored lower than comparisons on the SCCS. Low s...

URET is designated as the conflict probe for the Federal Aviation Administration's Free Flight Program. Objective analyses of the conflict detection and notification functions of URET are known as functional performance assessments. This paper introduces metrics and techniques that are applied to perform these assessments on data recorded from the URET systems at the Memphis and Indianapolis Ai...