OBJECTIVES To determine whether subjective poor sleep prospectively increases functional limitations and incident disability in a national sample of adults living in the United States. DESIGN Prospective cohort. SETTING Longitudinal Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS). PARTICIPANTS Young, middle-aged, and older men and women (aged 24-75) surveyed in 1995/96 (MIDUS 1...

OBJECTIVE To assess the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and TPB with functional ability to explain intention and self-reported physical activity (PA) behavior of older adults. METHODS A survey was mailed to 2056 retirees from a large Midwestern university. RESULTS Structural equation modeling revealed that the TPB plus functional ability explained an additional 11% variance than the TPB al...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the ability of COPD patients to perform activities of daily living (ADL); to identify barriers that prevent these individuals from performing ADL; and to correlate those barriers with dyspnea severity, six-minute walk test (6MWT), and an ADL limitation score. METHODS In COPD patients and healthy, age-matched controls, the number of steps, the distance walked, and walking...

background and purpose: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) is identified as the risk factor for functional difficulties in most of the survivors. the aim of this study was to investigate the current evidence-based literature on the area of self-care and adl status in the veterans with combat-related ptsd. methods: this review was conducted on the studies published within 2005-2015. the searc...

OBJECTIVES: To determine whether subjective poor sleep prospectively increases functional limitations and incident disability in a national sample of adults living in the United States. DESIGN: Prospective cohort. SETTING: Longitudinal Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS). PARTICIPANTS: Young, middle-aged, and older men and women (aged 24–75) surveyed in 1995/96 (MIDUS 1) ...

OBJECTIVES To examine the association of living arrangements with functional disability among older persons and explore the mediation of impact factors on the relationship. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis using data from Healthy Aging study in Zhejiang Province. PARTICIPANTS Analyzed sample was drawn from a representative rural population of older persons in Wuyi County, Zhejiang Province, ...

Results: It was found that 80.6% of the elderly were independent in the ADL and 79.8% were independent in the IADL. On the whole, they show a reasonable quality of life. The study of the correlation between the results of the perception of the quality of life and the levels of independence in the ADL and the IADL revealed that the more independent elderly people tend to perceive a better qualit...

People with Alzheimer's disease living in a defined community in New York City were identified and assessed on two occasions to determine the number of hours of activities of daily living (ADL) care they received. Nearly half received all care hours from informal sources; however, a quarter received all ADL care hours from formal sources. The mean number of daily ADL hours in the sample was 9.7...