This brief report provides a first look at self-reported instances of elder abuse by a sample of people 60 years and older living in Qazvin, Iran. Six hundred community-dwelling persons, drawn from the registry files of each health center in Qazin, completed questionnaires during April to October 2012. At least 80% of the participants reported experiencing some form of psychological abuse, fina...

the purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of physical activity onmemory and dynamic balance of elder people. subjects (n=15) were selected asvolunteers. the intervention was performed in an eighteen session period, threetimes a week (each session, 45 minutes). yoga training was performed for mentalrelaxation. wexler test was performed for memory evaluation. seat up test wasused to ...

Edited by Deborah Perry Schoenfelder, PhD, RN Elder abuse is a problem that occurs across all settings and is encountered by all health care providers and others not in the health care field. Elder abuse is “a single, or repeated act, or lack of appropriate action, occurring within any relationship where there is an expectation of trust which causes harm or distress to an older person” (World H...

There has been little research on how young people respect, or disrespect, older adults. This study explored the ways in which young adults connote elder respect by utilizing two different forms of data. Based on quantitative data from a survey of 521 college students, a set of 11 behavioral forms of elder respect was obtained. Out of these forms, 6 were identified as most frequently practiced....

Violence in families and elder abuse can take many forms, which his sometimes difficult to recognize. In Russia, elder abuse is rarely discussed in professional literature and mass media. A border between elder abuse and parricide can be indistinct. Borderline cases can include involvement of older people in binge drinking, denial of help, and manipulation towards suicide. Three example cases a...

This study, conceived in order to try to understand the situations that motivate families to place elderly relatives in nursing homes, used a methodological qualitative approach. Data collection was conducted through open interviews. The analysis of the answers resulted in two categories: the placement in a nursing home as a way to meet the elder person's needs; and the search for the best plac...

Frailty and malnutrition are both highly prevalent in the older populations. Frailty has multifactorial origin, and is regarded as a fundamental risk factor for deteriorating health status and disability in elder people. It is estimated that prevalence rates for frailty and pre-frail reach as high as 27% and 51%, respectively. The nutritional deficiency is a key to the development of frailty, a...

Real-time monitoring of the physical condition of the elderly people has become mandatory nowadays. The reason for rise in demand of aging services is due to the rise of the elderly population. We need precise, fast and effective transmission of information about their health condition to the concerned. Also there lies a need to transmit more parameters and more data for the convenience and eff...