Background With an increasingly aged, frail population that holds a disproportionate amount of wealth, clinicians (especially those with expertise in older adults) may be asked with more frequency to offer a clinical opinion on testamentary capacity (TC), the mental capacity to make a will. Method This paper reviews the legal criteria as well as the empirical research on assessment tools for ...

background and objectives: given the limited number of studies on ramadan fasting and military performance, we conducted this study to identify the effect of ramadan fasting on physical fitness performances in army cadets. methods: twenty healthy males were randomly selected from a larger sample group. the subjects were divided into fasting (n=10) and non-fasting (n=10) groups. they performed v...

BACKGROUND Grip muscle force has always been used to assess functional limitations in elderly. Its use as a tool to assess work capacity has never been described in the literature. OBJECTIVE To describe the patent determinants of grip strength and the usefulness of its measurement in assessing workability index in the healthcare sector. METHODS This is a cross-sectional study conducted in a...

background: the purpose of this research is to establish the ability of employees by work ability index (wai), physical work capacity (pwc), and finding the correlation between them . establishing the pwc index with attention to wai values for the purpose of saving in costs and time of pwc measurements is another aim of this project. methods: the present research is an analytic cross-sectional ...