background the long-term consequences and the activities of daily living of bilateral lower limb amputatees are not well documented. objectives our study identifies the long-term effects of bilateral lower extremity amputations on daily activities to understand how these amputees cope with their mobility assistive devices. materials and methods a total of 291 veterans of war with bilateral lowe...

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introduction: one of the most popular methods for evaluating old people’s health condition is to assess their functional practice. the aim of this study was to assess the status of daily living activities among the older people of maku, iran. methods: the present cross-sectional study was accomplished among 216 older people in maku via simple random sampling. participant’s subjective and demogr...

objectives: the purpose of this study is to describe the experiences of adults with acquired blindness while performing the daily activities of normal life and to investigated the role of environmental factors in this process. methods: a qualitative phenomenological method has been designed for this study. a sample of 22 adults with acquired blindness who were blind for more than 5 years of lif...

conclusions many factors, such as gender, age, education, type of trauma, and location of injured organ, may predict adl following limb trauma. background traumatic injuries in the elderly often lead to permanent disabilities and long-term treatments that can adversely influence their activities of daily of living (adl). the effect on adl is an important outcome in elderly trauma. objectives th...

background activities of daily living (adl) are an important indicator of health and independence in the elderly. it provides useful information for proper planning in the field of elderly care. trauma in the elderly population is frequent and negatively affects the independence in adl. objectives the purpose of the present study was to evaluate elderly independence in activities of daily livin...

conclusions increasing dependency in adl is accompanied by increasing dependency in iadl. in the past, the duty of health care providers was saving the life of veterans due to injuries while at present, because these injuries occurred in young and healthy individuals, the need for increased function is being highlighted. background the iran-iraq imposed war lasted eight years and was one of the...

background activities of daily living (adl) are an important indicator of health and independence in elderly. it provides useful information for proper planning in the field of elderly care. trauma in elderly population is frequent and can negatively affect the independence in adl. objectives the purpose of the present study was to evaluate elderly independence in activities of daily living (ad...

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...

OBJECTIVES Evaluating functional level of persons with diagnosed or suspected dementia is an important part of occupational therapy. The importance of the environment is often highlighted. We investigated the ability of clients with suspected dementia to perform instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) in the clinic versus in their homes. METHOD We used the Assessment of Motor and Proc...